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The Role of Parental Acceptance–Rejection in Emotional Instability During Adolescence

  • Santiago Mendo-Lázaro,
  • Benito León-del-Barco,
  • María-Isabel Polo-del-Río,
  • Rocío Yuste-Tosina and
  • Víctor-María López-Ramos

The present study focuses on analyzing the relationship between the parental acceptance–rejection perceived by adolescents and emotional instability from the early stages of adolescence. Special attention will be paid to potential differences b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Parenting and Offspring Health and Well-Being)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,551 Views
14 Pages

The present study investigated the potential moderating role of physical activity on the relationship between parental rejection and poor body image perceptions. Late adolescents and young adults from Turkey (N = 373; 256 females/117 males) reported...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physical Activity and Psychosocial and Cognitive Outcomes in Children and Adolescents)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,480 Views
14 Pages

9 November 2024

Background/Objectives: Parental internalizing issues, particularly maternal mental health, can significantly influence adolescents’ mental health by altering parenting behaviors and roles. This study explores the role of parental rejection in m...

(This article belongs to the Section Pediatric Mental Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,121 Views
9 Pages

3 April 2023

Parenting is an important factor affecting teenagers’ gratitude, but few studies have deeply examined the impact of specific parenting behavior on teenagers’ gratitude. In this study, 357 high school students were tested by questionnaires...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Harm from Social Networking and Alcohol Use)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
8,356 Views
16 Pages

Bullying has been identified as the most common form of aggression experienced by school-age youth. However, it is still unclear about the family’s influence on school bullying. Therefore, the current study aimed to explore the associations bet...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Children's Well-Being and Violence against Children: Psychosocial and Public Health Aspects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,261 Views
10 Pages

8 February 2023

Today’s society has been paying increasing attention to the important impact of family parenting practices on the development of adolescents. Adolescents with poor parenting practices may have poor academic performance in school, have low self-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Behaviors That Affect the Learning Process in High School and University)
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  • Open Access
2,304 Views
19 Pages

3 July 2025

Although previous studies have shown that parental burnout is a risk factor for adolescents’ development, much remains unknown about the associations between mothers’ parental burnout and adolescents’ aggression as well as the poten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
721 Views
18 Pages

16 May 2026

This study examined a moderated mediation model linking parental rejection and overprotection to smartphone addiction, with sense of security as a mediator and forgiveness as a moderator. A total of 730 students (mean age = 12.15 ± 1.13 years;...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Problematic Social Media Use Among Adolescents in the Background of Generative AI)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
18,144 Views
15 Pages

Theories of development point out that childhood experiences are relevant across the lifespan, and that the parent-child relationship is essential for a child’s physical and psychological wellbeing. The aim of this study is to investigate wheth...

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  • Open Access
426 Views
17 Pages

26 August 2026

Social anxiety is a common and persistent mental health problem associated with substantial functional impairment. It comprises distinct subtypes, including social interaction anxiety and performance anxiety, which differ in their cognitive character...

(This article belongs to the Section Family Studies)
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  • Open Access
913 Views
16 Pages

Perceived parental acceptance–rejection is associated with adolescent psychological adjustment, but evidence from Central Europe remains limited. Guided by IPARTheory, this cross-sectional study examined associations between perceived maternal...

(This article belongs to the Section Adolescent Health and Mental Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,383 Views
12 Pages

Parenting practices are essential in promoting children’s mental health, especially in effective and ineffective parenting. The use of ineffective parenting practices is no longer encouraged in the west; however, it remains a common practice am...

(This article belongs to the Section Adolescents)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,838 Views
10 Pages

Rejective parenting is a major antecedent of emotional instability and aggressive behavioral problems. Previous studies have reported that emotional problems, such as depression, anxiety, aggression, and conduct problems in children and adolescents,...

(This article belongs to the Section Adolescents)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,401 Views
17 Pages

Previous studies have identified coercive parenting as a prevalent parenting style in Chinese society. They suggested that this style of parenting could promote prosocial behavior and school commitment when combined with close monitoring and proper t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Children Development and Health Care in Stress and Wellbeing Contexts)
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  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,365 Views
12 Pages

Although a large body of research has indicated that parent-adolescent communication is a crucial protective factor for adolescent Internet addiction, the mediating and moderating mechanisms underlying this relationship remain unclear. To address thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Underlying Mechanisms in Behavioral Addictions and Their Meaning for Prevention and Intervention Strategies)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,459 Views
11 Pages

During the COVID-19 pandemic, people voluntarily reduced their necessary healthcare. We examined whether supplying educational digital versatile discs (DVDs) before admission can reduce parental rejection of pediatric cardiac catheterization for cong...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,559 Views
16 Pages

The Interaction Effect of Parental Rejection and Oxytocin Receptor Gene Polymorphism on Depression: A Cross-Cultural Study in Non-Clinical Samples

  • Vincenzo Paolo Senese,
  • Kazuyuki Shinohara,
  • Paola Venuti,
  • Marc H. Bornstein,
  • Vittorio Rosanio,
  • Carla Nasti,
  • Michelle Jin-Yee Neoh,
  • Marzia Maresca and
  • Gianluca Esposito

Parental rejection has been consistently empirically implicated in a wide array of developmental, behavioural and psychological problems worldwide. However, the interaction effect between parental rejection in childhood and the oxytocin receptor geno...

(This article belongs to the Section Health-Related Quality of Life and Well-Being)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
11,457 Views
14 Pages

15 November 2023

Little is known about how rejecting and controlling parenting styles may influence adolescent psychological crisis and what conditions may buffer the detrimental effects of psychological crisis. By integrating multiple theories, this study investigat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
17,577 Views
20 Pages

15 November 2022

Parent involvement and parental warmth have been extensively studied in the global literature. However, limited research has been conducted on parent involvement and parental warmth in India. This study examined parental warmth and parent involvement...

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  • Open Access
48 Citations
12,036 Views
18 Pages

Alcohol consumption, a larger history of childhood parental rejection, and high prenatal androgen exposure have been linked with facilitation and high risk of recidivism in intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetrators. Participants were distributed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trauma, Addiction and Criminality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,216 Views
13 Pages

Impact of the Familiar Environment in 11–14-Year-Old Minors’ Mental Health

  • Benito León-del-Barco,
  • Fernando Fajardo-Bullón,
  • Santiago Mendo-Lázaro,
  • Irina Rasskin-Gutman and
  • Damián Iglesias-Gallego

The analysis of the mental health in children under 14 years has become a research topic of global interest where the family can be a key factor for protection or risk against mental health problems. With this work, we intend to determine, employing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mental Health and its Social and Cultural Implications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,097 Views
14 Pages

The Role of Parental Qualities in Supporting Children with ADHD

  • Galia Ankori,
  • Maly Solan,
  • Sarit Plishty,
  • Anat Brunstein Klomek,
  • Alan Apter and
  • Yaron Yagil

27 June 2025

Objective: This cross-sectional study examined assumptions about the role of parenting qualities in predicting child problems. Background: Children with ADHD often experience distress, partially linked to less adaptive parenting practices. Our workin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Parenting a Child with Disabilities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,711 Views
23 Pages

22 April 2022

Research has well established that parental physical abuse experiences can lead to devastating consequences for adolescents, with peer relationships acting as both protective and risk factors. With the person-centered latent profile analysis (LPA), w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Family Risk and Protective Factors and Child Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,209 Views
19 Pages

Parental hostility and emotional rejection—or aggregated as general harsh family interactions with parents—have received little research attention due to such parent-child interactions being counted as minor forms of parental maltreatment...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Health Issues in Global Youth)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,309 Views
20 Pages

Despite the growing social alarm generated by the recurrent news concerning violent episodes involving youth gangs, systematic research in Italy in this field, especially within a psychological framework, is still limited. Following a social-ecologic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Determinants of Risk-Taking Behaviour in Young People: Implications for Innovative Interventions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
20,049 Views
13 Pages

The Impact of Children’s and Parents’ Perceptions of Parenting Styles on Attention, Hyperactivity, Anxiety, and Emotional Regulation

  • Marisol Cueli,
  • Natalia Martín,
  • Laura M. Cañamero,
  • Celestino Rodríguez and
  • Paloma González-Castro

6 March 2024

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptomatology can be studied by examining the associated neurobiological factors or by looking at the environmental factors involved, such as parenting styles. Negative parenting styles have been assoc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Assessment and Therapy for Children and Adolescents with Neurodevelopmental Disorders)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,734 Views
13 Pages

Cybervictimization and Adolescent Internet Addiction: A Moderated Mediation Model

  • Mucheng Xin,
  • Pei Chen,
  • Qiao Liang,
  • Chengfu Yu,
  • Shuangju Zhen and
  • Wei Zhang

Previous research indicates that cybervictimization can lead to adolescent Internet addiction; however, there is a gap in the knowledge about the mediating and moderating variables facilitating this relationship. This study examines the role of rejec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cyberbullying, Mental Health and Behavioral Difficulties in Early Adolescents)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,696 Views
21 Pages

At present, school bullying incidents frequently occur, attracting increased attention from researchers. In this study, we attempt to explore the impact of parenting styles on perceived school non-physical bullying. Four hundred ninety-two students i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
216 Views
20 Pages

7 October 2026

Social and emotional competence (SEC) is a core target of school-based social and emotional learning (SEL), yet learner variability may alter how relational experiences and emotion-regulation difficulties are associated with mental-health outcomes. D...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Learning to Thrive: Integrating Social Emotional Learning Across the Diverse Educational Context)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,390 Views
17 Pages

14 November 2024

The purpose of this study is to examine family-level and community-level factors contributing to children and pre-adolescents’ moral disengagement and cooperation in the context of deprived neighborhoods. A set of validated measures has been ad...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vitality in Movement: Rethinking Physical Education from a Pedagogical to a Physiological Dimension)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,010 Views
20 Pages

Parenting styles are crucial in the process of forming social emotions in children. They are also vital for creating effective family policies in order to improve a child’s early development. As such, it is important to acknowledge the enduring...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Student Development and Behavioral Health: The Influence of Environment and Relationships)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,288 Views
14 Pages

Resilience and Strategic Emotional Intelligence as Mediators between the Disconnection and Rejection Domain and Negative Parenting among Female Intimate Partner Violence Victims

  • Klaudia Sójta,
  • Małgorzata Juraś-Darowny,
  • Aleksandra Margulska,
  • Wioletta Jóźwiak-Majchrzak,
  • Anna Grażka and
  • Dominik Strzelecki

6 September 2023

(1) Background: The exposure of children to intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with a wide range of negative effects on children’s development, where as parenting practice is considered to be one of the key factors mediating and miti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Neurocognitive Impairments and Behavioral Disturbances in Clinical Practice and Long-term Care)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,694 Views
15 Pages

Understanding Associations Between Family Rejection, Human–Animal Interaction, and Mental Health Among LGBTQ+ Emerging Adults

  • Angela Matijczak,
  • Shelby E. McDonald,
  • Lori R. Kogan,
  • Rosalie Corona and
  • Katlyn Reynolds

22 November 2024

Many LGBTQ+ emerging adults experience rejection from their family of origin. Family rejection is a stressor that contributes to worsened mental health for LGBTQ+ emerging adults. Supportive relationships with others can be an important protective fa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
16,513 Views
16 Pages

An Exploratory Study of Adult Baby-Diaper Lovers’ Characteristics in an Italian Online Sample

  • Antonietta Lasala,
  • Francesco Paparo,
  • Vincenzo Paolo Senese and
  • Raffaella Perrella

Background: Knowledge of the Adult Baby-Diaper Lovers (ABDL) phenomena is quite recent and there are, of yet, few studies on this phenomenon. Aim: This study was conceived to investigate the functions of ABDL behaviours and the characteristics of ABD...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gender Differences in Emotions, Cognition, and Behavior)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,036 Views
14 Pages

Background: Previous work has indicated that pubertal timing and parenting styles are associated with adolescents’ drinking behavior, but studies on the relationship between the above three variables are lacking. Methods: Participants were 1408...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Alcohol and Substance Use in Adolescents)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,596 Views
15 Pages

Lagged Effect of Parental Warmth on Child-to-Parent Violence through Moral Disengagement Strategies

  • Nazaret Bautista-Aranda,
  • Lourdes Contreras and
  • M. Carmen Cano-Lozano

Empirical evidence supports the simultaneous relationship between parental warmth and child-to-parent violence (CPV). However, no studies analyze the lagged effects of perceived parental warmth and the potential impact of cognitive mechanisms legitim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Child Trauma and Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
11,744 Views
18 Pages

Negative Parenting, Adolescents’ Emotion Regulation, Self-Efficacy in Emotion Regulation, and Psychological Adjustment

  • Laura Di Giunta,
  • Carolina Lunetti,
  • Giulia Gliozzo,
  • W. Andrew Rothenberg,
  • Jennifer E. Lansford,
  • Nancy Eisenberg,
  • Concetta Pastorelli,
  • Emanuele Basili,
  • Irene Fiasconaro and
  • Alessia Teresa Virzì
  • + 2 authors

This study examines associations between parents’ rejection and control, adolescents’ self-efficacy in their regulation of negative emotions, and maladjustment. Path analyses were employed to test (a) whether adolescents’ dysregulat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 2nd Edition of Mental Health and Well-Being in Adolescence: Environment and Behavior)
  • Article
  • Open Access
552 Views
17 Pages

27 May 2026

Although prior research has typically examined the relationship between parenting styles and left-behind children’s social adaptation using broad categories without identifying directly linked dimensions, the present study employed network anal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Family Interaction and Children’s Social Development: Behavioral and Neural Correlates)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,585 Views
12 Pages

Background: Pubertal timing refers to the timing of an individual regarding pubertal sexual maturation, both physiologically and psychologically. Existing research shows that pubertal timing is associated with behavioral problems. This study investig...

(This article belongs to the Collection Children and Adolescents’ Development: New Challenges and New Insights)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
9,198 Views
10 Pages

This qualitative study explored siblings’ perceptions of the impact a sibling diagnosed with ADHD has within the family system. Specific focus was placed on the different ways these different sibling cohorts were parented. Participants constituted ei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,051 Views
15 Pages

22 November 2017

Parenting and procreation have long been contested legal terrain in the United States as exemplified by a history of abuses against marginalized populations including people with disabilities. While some of the most egregious abuses, such as state sp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Health Care Law and the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,409 Views
15 Pages

Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Influenza Vaccination among Parents of Children with Asthma: A Cross-Sectional Study

  • Walid Al-Qerem,
  • Anan Jarab,
  • Alaa Hammad,
  • Fawaz Alasmari,
  • Jonathan Ling,
  • Enas Al-Zayadneh,
  • Montaha Al-Iede,
  • Badi’ah Alazab and
  • Leen Hajeer

7 June 2023

Asthma is the most common chronic disease in childhood. Exacerbation is a significant problem for asthmatic patients, and viral infections remain the most frequent triggers of asthma exacerbations. This study explored knowledge, attitudes, and practi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Factors Associated with Vaccine Hesitancy and Acceptance)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,663 Views
23 Pages

Dishonesty is an interpersonal process that relies on sophisticated socio-cognitive mechanisms embedded in a complex network of individual and contextual factors. The present study examined parental rearing practices, bilingualism, socioeconomic stat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Factors Related to School Coexistence at Different Educational Stages)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,803 Views
18 Pages

24 June 2025

The present study examined the associations between emotion-related parenting styles and children’s social and emotional adjustment to first grade. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses of data from 250 parents of children who had entered f...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,825 Views
10 Pages

30 August 2021

Background: Internationally, there are very few guidelines regarding how near relations can be taken care of on a children’s intensive care unit. Despite knowledge about the positive effects of parental presence, staff frequently reject parents out o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
9,008 Views
25 Pages

The current systematic review aimed to evaluate the variables influencing foster parents’ parenting stress, distress and parenting style, thereby supporting their adjustment and well-being as well as that of foster children. A PRISMA-guided search wa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Child Psychology and Parenting Interventions)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,734 Views
14 Pages

This research presents an in-depth observation of parental resolution regarding a child’s diagnosis with special needs to help counsellors understand the complexities of parental coping. Sixty-two parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disord...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Parenting and Mental Health)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,898 Views
15 Pages

Overexpression of VEGF in the MOPC 315 Plasmacytoma Induces Tumor Immunity in Mice

  • Byung-Gyu Kim,
  • Sung Hee Choi,
  • John J. Letterio,
  • Jie-Young Song and
  • Alex Y. Huang

Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) has important effects on hematopoietic and immune cells. A link between VEGF expression, tumor progression, and metastasis has been established in various solid tumors; however, the impact of VEGF expression...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,250 Views
13 Pages

Attentional Prioritization of Infant Faces in Parents: The Influence of Parents’ Experiences of Care

  • Micol Gemignani,
  • Michele Giannotti,
  • Xenia Schmalz,
  • Paola Rigo and
  • Simona De Falco

Infant faces are prioritized by the attentional system in parents, resulting in a greater cognitive engagement in terms of response time. However, many biological, contextual and environmental factors relating to this cognitive mechanism have been le...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 2nd Edition of Parental Attachment and Adolescent Well-Being)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,102 Views
18 Pages

Recalled Maternal Rearing Behaviour of Individuals Born Preterm and Their Mothers: The Impact of Intimate Mother–Child Contact

  • Daniëlle Otten,
  • Mareike Ernst,
  • Alexander K. Schuster,
  • Jonas Tesarz,
  • Sandra Gißler,
  • Eva Mildenberger,
  • Norbert Pfeiffer,
  • Manfred E. Beutel and
  • Achim Fieß

21 March 2024

Background: Preterm birth is a risk factor for a variety of detrimental health outcomes. Previous studies have identified recalled (or remembered) parental rearing behaviour as a potential modifier of preterm individuals’ mental health in adult...

(This article belongs to the Section Obstetrics & Gynecology)

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