Authors
Zahra Saedi, Fatemeh Norouzi Aliabad, Elham Taheri, Mahdi Amiri
Published in
Journal of experimental child psychology. Volume 272. Pages 106602. Jul 20, 2026. Epub Jul 20, 2026.
Abstract
Social cognition-inferring mental states from eye cues-is vital for adolescent adjustment, yet integrative models of its parenting and personality predictors are scarce, particularly in non-Western collectivistic contexts. This study tested a mediation model linking authoritative and permissive parenting styles and adolescent conscientiousness to social cognition via parent-adolescent interaction. In a cross-sectional design, 300 Iranian adolescent-parent dyads completed measures of parenting styles, conscientiousness, parent-adolescent communication, and the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test-Child Version. Path analysis using PLS-SEM revealed that authoritative parenting (β = 0.25, p < .001) and conscientiousness (β = 0.18, p = .003) directly predicted social cognition. Authoritative parenting also showed a significant indirect effect through parent-adolescent interaction (β = 0.18, p < .001), whereas permissive parenting exhibited a negative indirect effect via the same mediator (β = -0.10, p < .05). The model accounted for 45% and 41% of the variance in interaction quality and social cognition, respectively. Findings underscore authoritative parenting and conscientiousness as direct correlates of social cognition, with interaction quality serving as a key mediating mechanism for parenting effects. This study provides the first integrative evidence for these pathways in a Middle Eastern collectivistic sample, highlighting family communication as a target for intervention.
PMID:
42475770
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