The moderating role of reflective functioning in the relationship between perceived parental acceptance-rejection and emotion regulation in adolescents

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1 Family Research Institute,Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Family Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

10.48308/apsy.2023.231548.1485

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Aim: The aim of the current study was to determine the moderating role of reflective functioning in the relationship between perceived parental acceptance-rejection and emotion regulation in adolescents. Method: This research was a correlational study. The statistical population of this study included Iranian students aged 14-18 years. The data of the research were collected by convenience sampling from 400 adolescents. They completed a series of online questionnaires: Fonagy et al.'s Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (2016), the short form of Rohner's parental acceptance-rejection questionnaire (2005), Gratz and Roemer's (2004) Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale. Structural equation modeling was used to answer the research questions. Results: there was a positive and significant relationship between perceived parental rejection and uncertainty dimension of reflective functioning with difficulties in emotion regulation of adolescents, but the certainty dimension had a negative and significant relationship with difficulties in emotion regulation. The certainty dimension of reflective functioning had a moderating role in the relationship between perceived parental rejection and difficulties in emotion regulation, while the uncertainty dimension of reflective functioning could not play a moderating role in the relationship between perceived parental rejection and difficulties in emotion regulation. Conclusion: if adolescents have a good level of reflective functioning, they can cope with the effects of parental rejection in a more favorable way. Therefore, helping to improve the level of reflective functioning can be on the agenda of therapists who work in the field of children, adolescents and parent-child relationships.

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