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Perceived Stress And Communication With Parents – An Ecological Momentary Assessment

In adolescence, young people focus more on friendships with peers and spend less time with their parents. Accordingly, friends become the ones who provide emotional support, but the question remains whether parental support becomes irrelevant. There are many ways to operationalize parental support, with measurement through intensive longitudinal studies being the one that allows for daily changes to be observed. Therefore, the main goal of this study was to examine whether adolescents' perceived stress predicts daily communication with parents. We conducted an intensive longitudinal study that began in March 2022 and will continue through the end of June 2022. Until now, 111 first grade high school students from Zagreb, Osijek, Varaždin, Rijeka, Split, Dubrovnik and Vinkovci participated in the study. We used the smartphone app EARS to conduct an eight-day ecological momentary assessment. Students rated how stressed they felt each morning and whether they had talked to their parents about their day each evening. Preliminary analyses of 19 participants show that they talked to their parents 91 times (out of 165 measurement points), with an average perceived stress being 2, 65 (SD=1, 358). Even though the results of generalized linear mixed modeling suggest that the frequency of talking to parents varied over the eight-day period, perceived stress did not predict the occurrence of the daily communication with parents. Although the stress felt by adolescents does not affect whether they talk to their parents about their day, this study was one of the first to conduct an ecological momentary assessment in Croatia. By using this method, researchers can minimize recall bias and maximize ecological validity, allowing them to draw clearer conclusions. In terms of prevention, studying relationships with parents and peers in an intensive longitudinal study allows for a more accurate understanding of risk and protective factors from the adolescent environment.

adolescence ; stress ; parents ; ecological momentary assessment

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