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Zeynep Su Altinoz

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Adolescent reception refers to attention to and positive evaluation of parental support. Although reception is a key component of support effectiveness, it is overlooked in the literature. Reception can be detected by adolescents' observed responses to parental support, adolescents' or parents' reports of reception following parental support, and their reflections about the conditions and time course of reception. We conducted a novel multi-method, multi-informant study to detect different elements of adolescent reception of parental support. The current study includes 68 parent- adolescent (Mage = 13.70 yrs., 76% White, 16% Black, 51% male) dyads. Each dyad completed two in-lab video-recorded conversations. First, adolescents were asked to prepare for a self-presentation. Before the self-presentation, adolescents and parents discussed the self-presentation for five minutes. Second, adolescents identified their most difficult peer problem and discussed it with their parents for another five minutes. For each conversation activity, we coded reception based on adolescent behaviors, such as attentiveness to the parent and showing appreciation of the parent. Reliabilities were good (ICCself- presentation = .81, ICCpeerstress = .78). In addition, adolescents completed a support reception scale following each discussion (αs' range = .68 - .77). Preliminary analyses showed that observed reception during the discussions was associated with adolescents' subjective reports of reception after the discussions (r = .40). Results support the reliability and validity of our novel observational measure of adolescent reception of parental support. Future analyses will identify themes from interviews about participants' perception of the time course of reception. Additional descriptive data and associations between different types of parental support (e.g., behavioral guidance, emotional comfort), adolescent desire for support, and adolescent reception will be presented.

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Auburn University / College of Human Sciences / 2025

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Zeynep Su Altinoz