Parental Threat Perception and Hyper-Parenting as Potential Risk Factors for Adolescents’ Test Anxiety

• DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/t6kyp
• Publication Date: 2024-07-08T21:03:51Z
• Authors: Audrey-Ann Journault; Charlotte Longpré; Geneviève Mageau; Sonia Lupien
• Keywords: Developmental Psychology; Psychology; Social and Behavioral Sciences

Parents who perceive their social environment as threatening may transmit these anxieties to adolescents through parenting, by shaping the skills and beliefs that adopt interact with own environment. The present study explores role of hyper-parenting two potential psychological mechanisms (i.e., youth emotional regulation perfectionism) in association between parental threat perception adolescents’ test anxiety. Two styles are investigated: child-centrism, which refers over-protective behaviors, tiger, describes over-involved behaviors regarding children’s achievements. proposed theoretical model was tested among 439 dyads parents (Mage = 44.5, SD 5.8, 24% fathers) (40.4% boys, 46.9% public school, 54% sixth graders). Results from path analyses showed positively associated both hyper-parenting. However, solely tiger (and not child-centrism) greater adolescent anxiety perfectionism. Emotion strategies did mediate relation invariant across or parent gender school type level. Findings this have practical implications they reveal is only rooted individual factors but also reflect