Chapter 4 128 Although the results supported this hypothesis of coexisting responsivity patterns, we also found unexpected patterns. An overview of all patterns and their descriptive statistics is shown in Table 4 (for a more detailed description see Table C1 in Appendix C). Around one-third of the sample showed a predicted responsivity pattern: 5% was adverse sensitive (n = 13), 3% vantage sensitive (n = 8) and 26% differentially susceptible (n = 67). However, no adolescent showed the hypothesized unsusceptible pattern. Unexpectedly, around one in four adolescents (n = 73, 29%) demonstrated a negative effect of parental support on their psychological functioning (see “Opposing effect of PS” in Table 4), a small minority (n = 6; 2%) reported better psychological functioning following more psychologically controlling parenting or reported both unexpected responses (n = 17, 7%). Finally, 28% (n = 72) did not perceive over-time changes in parenting and/or their psychological functioning (see “Unperceptive” in Table 4) and could not be assigned a responsivity pattern for this reason. Table 4 Overview of Responsivity Patterns in the Sample Responsivity pattern n % HSC M (SD) Age M % girls T M (SD) Predicted patterns (H3) 88 34.4% 1. Adverse sensitive (“for worse”) 13 5.1% 4.4 (0.61) 14.7 61.5% 17.4 (10.1) 2. Vantage sensitive (“for better”) 8 3.1% 5.0 (0.38) 13.9 75.0% 18.1 (7.8) 3. Differentially susceptible (“for better and for worse”) 67 26.2% 4.4 (0.77) 14.3 74.6% 19.4 (7.7) 4. Unsusceptible (“for neither”) 0 0% - - - - Unpredicted patterns 168 65.6% 5. Opposing effect of PPC 6 2.3% 4.9 (0.77) 15.3 66.7% 17.5 (9.8) 6. Opposing effect of PS 73 28.5% 4.6 (0.63) 14.5 76.7% 20.0 (7.4) 7. Opposing effect of PPC and PS 17 6.6% 4.8 (0.67) 14.8 58.8% 19.7 (6.2) 8. Unperceptivea 72 28.1% 4.1 (1.12) 14.2 68.1% 17.0 (8.9) Total 256 100.0% 4.4 (0.86) 14.4 71.5% 18.8 (8.1) Note. n = number of participants. HSC = Highly Sensitive Child Scale. M = mean. SD = standard deviation. T = number of bi-weekly observations. a Of the 72 adolescents, 2 showed changes in parenting but not in their psychological functioning.
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