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A longitudinal study of rejecting and autonomy-restrictive parenting, rejection sensitivity, and socioemotional symptoms in early adolescents

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Rowe, Susan L., Gembeck, Melanie J. Zimmer, Rudolph, Julia, Nesdale, Drew·2015·Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
DOI 10.1007/s10802-014-9966-6
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Rejection sensitivity (RS) has been defined as the tendency to readily perceive and overreact to interpersonal rejection. The primary aim of this study was to test key propositions of RS theory, namely that rejecting experiences in relationships with parents are antecedents of early adolescents' future RS and symptomatology. We also expanded this to consider autonomy-restrictive parenting, given the importance of autonomy in early adolescence. Participants were 601 early adolescents (age 9 to 13 years old, 51% boys) from three schools in Australia. Students completed questionnaires at school about parent and peer relationships, RS, loneliness, social anxiety, and depression at two times with a 14-month lag between assessments. Parents also reported on adolescents' difficulties at Time 1 (T1). It was anticipated that more experience of parental rejection, coercion, and psychological control would be associated with adolescents' escalating RS and symptoms over time, even after accounting for peer victimisation, and that RS would mediate associations between parenting and symptoms. Structural equation modelling supported these hypotheses. Parent coercion was associated with adolescents' increasing symptoms of social anxiety and RS over time, and parent psychological control was associated with increasing depressive symptoms over time. Indirect effects via RS were also found, with parent rejection and psychological control linked to higher T1 RS, which was then associated with increasing loneliness and RS. Lastly, in a separate model, peer victimisation and RS, but not parenting practices, were positively associated with concurrent parent reports of adolescents' difficulties.

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  • Rowe et al.'s (2015) study suggested that the strength of the associations between rejection sensitivity and socioemotional symptoms became less strong over a fourteen-month period.

    “A similar result was observed in Rowe et al.'s (2015) study among early adolescents in Australia, suggesting that the strength of the associations between rejection sensitivity and socioemotional symptoms became less strong over a fourteen-month period.”

    From Associations between rejection sensitivity and mental health outcomes: A meta-analytic review (2017) · cites this paper as Rowe et al.'s (2015)

    Table 1 shows weaker same-time associations of rejection sensitivity with social anxiety and depression at the second assessment, but a stronger association with loneliness. The Correlations section says the assessments were 14 months apart; it does not support a general decline across all socioemotional symptoms. (LLM, conf=0.87)

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  • Extensive research has shown that rejection sensitivity is associated with a range of mental health problems.

    “Extensive research has shown that rejection sensitivity is associated with a range of mental health problems (e.g., Chango, McElhaney, Allen, Schad, & Marston, 2012;Chesin, Fertuck, Goodman, Lichenstein, & Stanley, 2015;Rowe, Gembeck, Rudolph, & Nesdale, 2015;Webb et al., 2015).”

    From Associations between rejection sensitivity and mental health outcomes: A meta-analytic review (2017) · cites this paper as Rowe et al., 2015

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Authors
Rowe, S. L., Gembeck, M. J. Z., Rudolph, J., & Nesdale, D.
Affiliations
Griffith University (AU)
Corresponding author
Rowe, Susan L.
Venue
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2014-12-18
Volume
43
Issue
6
Pages
1107-1118
ISSN
  • 0091-0627 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-2835
DOI
10.1007/s10802-014-9966-6
OpenAlex
W2067877928
Semantic Scholar
23d1d1d21287c64b626a27eae71306543be2724c
Cited by
95
References
75
Citations by year
2026: 10 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2
FWCI
3.16
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations
  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Greenwich Academic Literature Archive (University of Greenwich) (acceptedVersion)
  • Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion)
Funders
Australian Research Council (DP1096183)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
Keywords
rejection sensitivity, parental rejection, early adolescence, loneliness, social anxiety, depressive symptoms, peer victimization, parent-adolescent relationships
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Anxiety, Child, Depression, Female, Humans, Loneliness, Male, Parent-Child Relations, Peer Group, Rejection, Psychology, Parenting, Crime Victims, Personal Autonomy

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