Family Expressiveness and Adolescent Expressive Flexibility: Examining Between-Family and Within-Family Associations

Yingqian Wang, Skyler T. Hawk, Department of Psychology, School of Sociology and Psychology, Central University of Finance and Economics, Department of Educational Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

The Journal of Early Adolescence

Published online on March 09, 2026

Abstract

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Research increasingly indicates that expressive flexibility is a marker for adaptive functioning, yet the role of family environment in shaping youth’s expressive flexibility remains uninvestigated. The present study examined between- and within-family ...