Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 2 · Licensed source edition
Parental rejection and generalized anxiety disorder in early adolescents: the mediating role of alexithymia
Originally published 2025-05-30 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1511983 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Respect
What happens when I treat difficulty explaining a feeling as a reason to listen longer?
The study considers perceived rejection and difficulty describing feelings together, using adolescents’ own reports.
Who was studied?
Two hundred and thirty-four early adolescents recruited from schools in northern Italy.
Age / stage: Early adolescence
Read with three questions
- Whose report was used to assess both rejection and difficulty describing emotion?
- Whose perspective is represented by the ratings, and whose perspective is missing?
- What happens when I treat difficulty explaining a feeling as a reason to listen longer?
Keep the limits in view
Reports from this sample may reflect who participated and how the questions were worded. Associations alone do not establish that a parenting response caused the outcome.
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Matteo Angelo Fabris; Claudio Longobardi; Elżbieta Zdankiewicz-Ścigala; Dawid Konrad Ścigała (2025). Parental rejection and generalized anxiety disorder in early adolescents: the mediating role of alexithymia Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1511983
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