A longitudinal study on the intergenerational transmission mechanism of music preference on adolescents' emotion regulation.

Résumé

This study employs a three-wave longitudinal design over two years, focusing on 362 pairs of seventh-grade students and their parents, to systematically explore the longitudinal associative pattern of intergenerational transmission of music preferences and its longitudinal predictive pathways with adolescent emotion regulation strategy use. The findings indicate that parents' music preferences significantly and positively predict adolescents' music preferences in the cross-lagged panel model (β = 0.24, p