Table 5.
Associations between Parent-Emerging Adult Texting Frequency and Content Codes with Emerging Adult Perceived Parental Text Support.
| Perceived Parental Text Supportiveness | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
| |||||||||
| Mothers (N = 215) | Fathers (N = 182) | ||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||
| b | SE | p | β | b | SE | p | β | ||
|
|
|
||||||||
| Gender (male) | −0.472 | 0.127 | <0.001 | −0.268 | −0.487 | 0.146 | 0.001 | −0.280 | |
| Age | −0.052 | 0.039 | 0.182 | −0.084 | −0.091 | 0.043 | 0.035 | −0.148 | |
| Parent Education | −0.012 | 0.048 | 0.799 | −0.020 | 0.044 | 0.061 | 0.468 | 0.066 | |
| Parent-EA texting frequency | 0.001 | <0.001 | 0.016 | 0.180 | 0.001 | 0.001 | 0.488 | 0.050 | |
|
| |||||||||
| Monitoring | |||||||||
| EA Disclosure | 0.001 | 0.006 | 0.817 | 0.042 | −0.008 | 0.011 | 0.474 | −0.126 | |
| Parent Solicitation | 0.001 | 0.008 | 0.902 | 0.015 | −0.017 | 0.012 | 0.119 | −0.189 | |
| Parent Control | 0.012 | 0.014 | 0.375 | 0.090 | −0.031 | 0.029 | 0.278 | −0.084 | |
| Positive Connection | |||||||||
| EA Warmth | 0.017 | 0.018 | 0.362 | 0.106 | 0.025 | 0.021 | 0.229 | 0.094 | |
| Parent Warmth | −0.010 | 0.009 | 0.288 | −0.122 | 0.012 | 0.015 | 0.453 | 0.056 | |
| EA Gratitude | 0.004 | 0.017 | 0.813 | 0.018 | 0.105 | 0.037 | 0.005 | 0.196 | |
| Parent Gratitude | −0.002 | 0.034 | 0.943 | −0.004 | −0.077 | 0.051 | 0.130 | −0.093 | |
| EA Emotional/Esteem Support Seeking | −0.013 | 0.012 | 0.273 | −0.087 | 0.142 | 0.066 | 0.030 | 0.152 | |
| Parent Emotional/Esteem Support Provision | −0.010 | 0.011 | 0.357 | −0.070 | 0.144 | 0.036 | <0.001 | 0.203 | |
| EA Instrumental Support Seeking | −0.044 | 0.021 | 0.040 | −0.153 | −0.015 | 0.054 | 0.780 | −0.025 | |
| Parent Instrumental Support Provision | −0.031 | 0.019 | 0.115 | −0.151 | −0.008 | 0.035 | 0.831 | −0.017 | |
| EA Advice Seeking | −0.031 | 0.021 | 0.139 | −0.111 | 0.095 | 0.039 | 0.014 | 0.153 | |
| Parent Advice Provision | −0.015 | 0.012 | 0.199 | −0.104 | 0.070 | 0.032 | 0.027 | 0.192 | |
Note. The upper panel includes presents results of the initial structural equation model, which tested associations between parent-EA texting frequency with Perceived Parental Text Supportiveness, alongside covariates of gender, age, and parent education (separately for Mother-Emerging Adult and Father-Emerging Adult dyads). The lower panel includes results from subsequent models, which added each PCTIC code to the model (which already included covariates and parent-EA texting frequency) separately. EA = Emerging Adult. Raw regression coefficients (b), standard errors (SE), and standardized regression coefficients (β) presented alongside p values (bolded when p < 0.05).