The Link between Parental Support and Adolescent Negative Mood in Daily Life: between-Person Heterogeneity in within-Person Processes

Lack of parental support is related to more adolescent negative mood. However, little is known about how fluctuations of parental support relate to fluctuations of negative mood within adolescents in daily life. The current study aimed to elucidate these processes at a day to day micro-level and examined to which extent adolescents would differ in the association between perceived parental support and adolescent negative mood. This data concerns ecological momentary assessments of 3 weeks (eight questionnaires a day) 3 months apart. 242 Dutch adolescents indicated their negative mood in every questionnaire and parental support was assessed once at the end of each day. We used multilevel regression analyses with random slopes to investigate the within-person association between parental support and negative mood and individual differences in effects.