Emotion regulation mediates associations between parenting practices and ethnic minority college students' prosocial behaviors
Abstract
The current study examined associations between Black and Latinx college students' mothers' and fathers' parenting practices, students' emotion regulation, and students' prosocial behaviors. College students (N = 567 participants; 64 percent Latinx; 83 percent female) responded to a survey with measures regarding parental nurturance and psychological control, emotion reappraisal and expressive suppression, and types of prosocial behavior. Parenting practices were linked to young adults' prosocial behavior via emotion regulation. Associations between these variables differed for mothers and fathers. In terms of indirect effects, maternal nurturance was indirectly associated with young adults' prosocial behaviors via emotion reappraisal. None of the processes examined were moderated by young adults' ethnicity or gender. Discussion focuses on how the findings support theory and extend research on studying the role of parenting practices, emotion regulation, and prosocial behavior within ethnic minority young adults.
Degree
M.S.