Although autonomy-relevant parenting practices (solicitation, rule-setting, and psychological control) have been linked to adolescent disclosure, little is known about how these practices operate across cultural contexts. Existing studies often examined these practices in isolation or relied on cross-sectional designs, limiting understanding of their unique relations over time. This study examined these associations longitudinally across eight countries differing in average individualism and collectivism, focusing on the mediating role of adolescents’ perceptions of parental warmth, neglect, and overcontrol. Participants were 1,215 adolescents (50.3% girls) assessed at ages 13, 15, and 16. Perceived psychological control predicted greater perceived neglect and overcontrol, and perceived overcontrol, in turn, significantly predicted lower disclosure; this indirect effect was significant. Neither solicitation nor rule-setting predicted disclosure over time. However, when focusing only on voluntary disclosure (excluding secrecy items), solicitation predicted greater disclosure. Findings highlight the differential impact of parenting practices on disclosure over time, with psychological control as a risk factor and solicitation potentially facilitating disclosure depending on its measurement.

SammanfattningFöräldraskap formas i samspelet mellan individ, familj och samhälle. Det påverkas av kulturella normer, traditioner och livsvillkor och ser därför olika ut i olika delar av världen. Men vad händer när de här världarna möts? I ett mångkulturellt land som Sverige? [Bokinfo]

SammanfattningFöräldraskap formas i samspelet mellan individ, familj och samhälle. Det påverkas av kulturella normer, traditioner och livsvillkor och ser därför olika ut i olika delar av världen. Men vad händer när de här världarna möts? I ett mångkulturellt land som Sverige? [Bokinfo]

SammanfattningFöräldraskap formas i samspelet mellan individ, familj och samhälle. Det påverkas av kulturella normer, traditioner och livsvillkor och ser därför olika ut i olika delar av världen. Men vad händer när de här världarna möts? I ett mångkulturellt land som Sverige? [Bokinfo]

LGBTQ+ students are exposed to student violations and discriminatory acts in secondary school to a much higher degree than non-LGBTQ+ students. In this article, we investigate how different spaces in school interact with processes of social inclusion and exclusion and how this affects LGBTQ+ students’ experiences of belonging and safety at secondary school. The analyses in the article are presented as movements through classrooms, corridors, canteens, changing rooms, toilets, and outside areas and examine LGBTQ+ students’ experiences of the interplay between spaces, actions, relations, and norms of gender and sexuality. The article is based on 42 qualitative individual interviews with 15-18-year-old LGBTQ+ teenagers in Denmark and Sweden in a research project on student violations and wellbeing among LGBTQ+ students at schools in the two countries. Theoretically, the analyses employ a perspective of space as relational, performative, affective, and socially produced. The article examines the complex social interactions to reveal not only the extensive risk faced by LGBTQ+ students of violation and discrimination through all school spaces, but also how, in subtle ways, physical and digital social interactions create spatial limitations that leave some LGBTQ+ students struggling to achieve a sense of belonging.

SammanfattningFöräldraskap formas i samspelet mellan individ, familj och samhälle. Det påverkas av kulturella normer, traditioner och livsvillkor och ser därför olika ut i olika delar av världen. Men vad händer när de här världarna möts? I ett mångkulturellt land som Sverige? [Bokinfo]

As technology becomes more ingrained in everyday life, people are increasingly faced with information about others. Social comparisons provide opportunities for evaluations, and thus, a chance for improvements, but they can also be sources of stress in cases where individuals feel less competent than the comparison target. Parents as a group are active comparers, but few studies have explored potential consequences of parents’ comparisons. In this study, we examined how parents’ comparisons on social media, as well as their positive and negative feelings while comparing, were associated with parental self-efficacy (PSE) and distress over time. We included 278 Swedish parents (85% mothers) of children below the age of 5. Parents offered data at three annual time points, and we performed cross-lagged panel models and mediation models including social comparisons, PSE, and distress (i.e., stress and depression). Results showed that negative feelings when comparing with others predicted decreases in PSE and increases in parents’ distress over time, and-with the exception of one significant reverse path in which depression predicted increases in parents’ general tendency to compare-there was little empirical support for effects in the opposite direction. In contrast, positive feelings when comparing, however, did not predict changes in PSE or distress. Hence, results suggest that parents’ beliefs and well-being are outcomes rather than predictors of parents’ comparisons, and negative feelings when comparing are of essential importance. These results imply that parents’ negative emotional reactions during comparisons can gradually erode their efficacy and increase distress, suggesting that such comparisons shape-not simply reflect-parental well-being.

SammanfattningFöräldraskap formas i samspelet mellan individ, familj och samhälle. Det påverkas av kulturella normer, traditioner och livsvillkor och ser därför olika ut i olika delar av världen. Men vad händer när de här världarna möts? I ett mångkulturellt land som Sverige? [Bokinfo]

This longitudinal study concerns initial levels, trajectories of growth, and associationsof positive youth development (PYD) with parental warmth and behavioral control fromearly adolescence to young adulthood. Participants included 1338 adolescents (M = 13.25,SD = 1.04, years; 50% girls) from nine countries trichotomized by income level based onWorld Bank groupings of economies as well as cultural, sociological, and psychologicalconsiderations. Composite measures of PYD at ages 13, 15, 16, 18, and 21 were createdfrom adolescent-report EPOCH dimensions of engagement, perseverance, optimism,connectedness, and happiness. Adolescents reported a high average initial level of PYD(3.50 on a 4-point scale) at 13 years of age; however, developmental trajectories of eachincome-level group differed with little within-group variation across age. Multigrouplatent growth curve models examined associations of family-level and parent-specificdimensions of warmth and control with intercepts and trajectories of PYD. Parentalwarmth was consistently associated with higher PYD intercepts in all three countryincome levels, whereas control showed varied effects. PYD followed similar trajectoryslopes across the three country income levels; parental warmth was consistently associ-ated with growth, whereas parental control showed nuanced associations with parentand country. Warmth appears to act as a common protective correlate of adolescentPYD, whereas control appears to constitute a protective correlate in some cultural con-texts but a risk correlate in other cultural contex

SammanfattningFöräldraskap formas i samspelet mellan individ, familj och samhälle. Det påverkas av kulturella normer, traditioner och livsvillkor och ser därför olika ut i olika delar av världen. Men vad händer när de här världarna möts? I ett mångkulturellt land som Sverige? [Bokinfo]