ArticleEmotion (Washington, D.C.)2026
Everyday emotion regulation and empathic accuracy in the parent-adolescent relationship.
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Empathic accuracy, the ability to accurately infer another's emotions, is critical for relational well-being. Adolescence is marked by heightened emotional intensity and increased conflict within the parent-adolescent relationship. It is therefore important to identify factors that contribute to accuracy in these relationships. Developmental theories suggest that perceivers' emotion regulation supports empathic accuracy, yet little is known about whether targets' regulation is associated with perceivers' accuracy, particularly in naturalistic settings and during adolescence. The present study addressed this gap using 28-day daily diary data from 112 parent-adolescent dyads. Once per day, both members reported on their own emotions and regulation strategies and inferred their partner's emotions. Empathic accuracy was calculated as the correlation between inferred and reported emotions. Actor-partner interdependence models tested between- and within-person associations among regulation and accuracy. Consistent with our hypotheses, greater use of typically maladaptive strategies for regulating negative and positive emotions by the target was associated with lower empathic accuracy by the perceiver at both between- and within-person levels, among parents and adolescents. Targets' greater use of adaptive strategies to regulate positive (but not negative) emotions was associated with higher same-day empathic accuracy for both perceivers and targets, but only at the within-person level. The findings elucidate the relationship between targets' emotion regulation and perceiver empathic accuracy within parent-adolescent relationships, emphasizing the significance of adaptive positive-emotion regulation. The results offer new pathways for clinical interventions aimed at enhancing family dynamics through supporting adolescents' and parents' regulation strategies to promote mutual understanding. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).
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