Description du projet
Quand trop de soutien parental nuit aux adolescents
Un fort soutien parental est souvent associé à une bonne estime de soi et au bien-être social. Cependant, trop d’amour et de soutien parental peut avoir un effet pervers. Que se passe-t-il lorsque trop de soutien nuit à l’épanouissement personnel d’un adolescent? Bien que cela semble aider l’enfant à surmonter son anxiété ou sa dépression à court terme, un soutien excessif des parents peut en réalité réduire les chances de bien-être à long terme. Ce n’est toutefois pas toujours le cas. Pour faire la lumière sur ces mécanismes, le projet PARADOx du CER va enquêter pendant trois ans auprès de 300 familles néerlandaises ayant un enfant âgé de 12 à 16 ans. Son objectif est de développer un modèle théorique de soutien parental spécifique à chaque famille, basé sur des données réelles.
Objectif
One-third of adolescents (12-18) experience emotional problems, such as anxiety and depression. This leads to enormous personal impact which often continues a lifetime. Support from parents is a protective factor that can increase the well-being of adolescents and reduce depression and anxiety. However, defying this currently held view, concerns are growing that support backfires in some families.
THE PARENTAL SUPPORT PARADOX. No matter how well-intended and well-received in the short run, over-supportive parenting can undermine opportunities for personal growth. This weakens long-term well-being. Who support backfires for and what the mechanisms are is unknown, because psychologists have lacked the data and analytical tools to study how parenting predicts well-being in individual family units.
DEVELOPING FAMILY-SPECIFIC METHODS. To theorize the short-term and long-term effects of parenting, my team and I will conduct one of the largest and most intensive studies of parental support and well-being. 300 Dutch families with a child, aged 12 to 16, will complete smartphone-based micro-surveys to capture parent-child interactions in daily life. Families are followed for three years, with seven follow-up surveys. As ultimate proof of theorized family-specific dynamics, we will test in an experiment (2 x n=100) if feedback on their real-life data strengthens parenting and improves child well-being.
IMPACT. Now that we can study each family’s unique daily dynamics, PARADOx will generate an entirely new family-specific theoretical model of parental support, explaining for whom and through which mechanisms support backfires. We will also target these dynamics with prevention, to transform support from a potential cause of emotional problems to a protective factor. The project will develop new concepts for personalized parenting advice for this purpose. Moreover we will deliver a toolbox of methods to study family-specific dynamics, which is disseminated across d
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitution d’accueil
3062 PA Rotterdam
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