<p>Dear Editor,</p>
<p>I am enclosing the paper titled <em>The relationship between parenting and adolescent peer relations: the role of coping</em>, for possible publication in <strong>Interamerican Journal of Psychology</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Data authors:</strong></p>
<p>María Cristina Richaud<sup>1</sup>, Anna Llorca Mestre<sup>2</sup>, Elisabeth Malonda Vidal<sup>2</sup>*, Paula Samper García<sup>2</sup>, Mª Vicenta Mestre Escrivá<sup>2</sup></p>
<p><sup>1</sup>National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.</p>
<p><sup>2</sup>Dpt. Basic Psychology. University of Valencia.</p>
<p><strong>*Corresponding author:</strong> Elisabeth Malonda. Faculty of Psychology. Department of Basic Psychology, Avda. Blasco Ibáñez, 21, 46010, Valencia, Spain. E-mail: <a href="mailto:elisabeth.malonda@uv.es">elisabeth.malonda@uv.es</a></p>
<p>I warrant that all co-authors are in agreement with the content of the manuscript and that the study was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the American Psychological Association.</p>
<p>The findings reported in the manuscript has not been published previously or submitted to another journal. Furthermore, the manuscript has been seen and reviewed by all authors and that all authors have contributed to it in a meaningful way.</p>
<p>The aim of this study is to analyse whether parenting styles are associated with the adolescent ways of coping with stress and of these, in turn, with the type of relationships that the adolescent develops with their peers, through a longitudinal study.</p>
<p>In the literature several studies that stress the importance of parenting styles in relation to how adolescent cope with stress and of the effect of that on adolescent peer relationships. However, there are few studies that look into the relationship between adolescent ways of coping with the type of relationships that these have with their peers, and even less of those that analyse the relationships between parenting styles, adolescent ways of coping and type of relationship with peers, taking into account the adolescent gender.</p>
<p>The main results showed that adolescents with an authoritative mother and father are more likely to develop attachment to peers and less likely to be victimized or aggressive towards peers. Furthermore, coping acts as a moderator variable fostering, when it is productive, relationships of attachment to peers and, when it is unproductive, victimisation and aggression.</p>
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<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>The authors.</p>