家庭情感同步与青少年福祉

Family emotional processes play a central role in adolescent well-being, yet most research relies on dyadic or static approaches that do not capture the dynamic, system-level nature of family emotional life. In a sample of adolescents (ages 12–17), mothers, and fathers ( N = 120; 2,365 assessments), constituting 40 family triads, we used ecological momentary assessment and a dynamic network approach to estimate how emotions fluctuate over time and co-vary across family members within each system. Emotional synchrony—defined as the extent to which family members’ affective states change togethe