This is so interesting, and sweet. That said, I would be curious to see this replicated with more information gathered about the quality of the overall relationship. For example, would these effects be stronger for securely attached parent-child dyads vs, say, an avoidantly attached child? Would a child with an assertive parent feel more buoyed by that parent’s presence vs one with a passive/permissive or critical/authoritarian style? I am thinking here of the many stories I hear about children who do not benefit from a parent, say, attending a child’s sports event, because that parent is only going to harangue them all the way home about all the ways in which they could have played better. These stories make me wonder if I was not lucky, in some way, that my difficult parents rarely had time to attend mine.
This is so interesting, and sweet. That said, I would be curious to see this replicated with more information gathered about the quality of the overall relationship. For example, would these effects be stronger for securely attached parent-child dyads vs, say, an avoidantly attached child? Would a child with an assertive parent feel more buoyed by that parent’s presence vs one with a passive/permissive or critical/authoritarian style? I am thinking here of the many stories I hear about children who do not benefit from a parent, say, attending a child’s sports event, because that parent is only going to harangue them all the way home about all the ways in which they could have played better. These stories make me wonder if I was not lucky, in some way, that my difficult parents rarely had time to attend mine.