Cracking the Code: Parent Influences on Adolescent Daily Coping with Stress. This project aims to answer vital questions scientists and parents face as adolescents turn to a modern digital toolbox to

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Cracking the Code: Parent Influences on Adolescent Daily Coping with Stress. This project aims to answer vital questions scientists and parents face as adolescents turn to a modern digital toolbox to cope with growing challenges. By advancing a novel theory-based framework, the project expects to generate new knowledge for parents, helping teens to make the most of opportunities and reduce risk. The project combines a nationwide survey of parents with high-resolution insights into parent and teen daily life via novel data collected from smartphones. Expected outcomes include advancement of a new theory of parenting to support teens and refined methods for addressing parent and teen daily experiences. This should provide significant benefits to building health and wellbeing of Australian adolescents and caregivers.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 5201 - Applied and Developmental Psychology. Lead: Prof Kathryn Modecki