Parental Social Comparison Shaming Hinders Chinese Adolescents' Presence of Life Meaning Through Thwarting Satisfaction of Need for Competence, Especially for Those Endorsing Reciprocal Filial Piety.

Hongjian Cao, Nan Zhou, Yuhan Wang, Yang Liu

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Article in Child development. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Parental Social Comparisons and Parent-Child Closeness in Families with Preschool Children: The Roles of Mindful Parenting and Parents' Education Anxiety.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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Longitudinal effects of emerging adults' self-presentation on social networking sites on fear of missing out.BMC psychology · 2026
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Intergenerational transmission of maternal and adolescent depressive symptoms: cross-sectional and cross-lagged panel network analysis.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026
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The Associations between Bullying Victimization, Self-Stigma, and Emotion Regulation Difficulties in Early Adolescence: A Cross-Lagged Panel Network Analysis.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026
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Hongjian CaoDepartment of Psychology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3635-9499

Nan ZhouFaculty of Education, University of Macau, Macau SAR, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3826-9438

Yuhan WangFaculty of Education, University of Macau, Macau SAR, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0006-4152-3280

Yang LiuSchool of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beihang University, Beijing, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9253-5763

Funding

Multi-Year Research Grant MYRG-GRG2023-00033-FEDThe Start-up Research Grant of the University of Macau SRG2022-00037-FEDThe University of Hong Kong Psychology Departmental Start-Up Fund and the University of Hong Kong University Research Committee Seed Fund for Basic Research for New Staff

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Abstract

Using three-wave data from 962 Chinese adolescents (45.1% boys, M

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Adolescent BehaviorParent-Child RelationsPersonal SatisfactionAdolescentChildChinaEast Asian PeopleFemaleHumansMalebasic need for competencefilial pietylife meaningsocial comparison shaming

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PMID40491196

DOI10.1111/cdev.70000

PMCPMC12379845

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