Parental Emotion Socialization Is Differentially Associated with Adolescents’ Stress Reactivity and Depressive Symptoms

The study seeks to explore whether parents’ – both mothers’ and fathers’ – suppressive socialization of anger expression predicts adolescents’ depressive symptoms and stress reactivity assessed via cortisol. This study is the first to report differential contributions of mothers’ and fathers’ emotion socialization strategies on children’s depression and stress responses.