The Role of Child Personality in Effects of Psychologically Controlling Parenting: An Examination at the Level of Daily Fluctuations

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elien Mabbe ◽  
Maarten Vansteenkiste ◽  
Jolene Van der Kaap–Deeder ◽  
Lisa Dieleman ◽  
Athanasios Mouratidis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internalizing Problems ◽  
Psychological Control ◽  
Daily Functioning ◽  
Diary Study ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Controlling Parenting ◽  
Externalizing And Internalizing Problems ◽  
Child Personality ◽  
Psychologically Controlling Parenting

Research increasingly demonstrates the detrimental effects of psychologically controlling parenting on children's adjustment. An important and practically relevant question is whether some children are more vulnerable for the effects of psychologically controlling parenting. In the current diary study, we investigated whether daily psychologically controlling parenting relates to children's daily externalizing and internalizing problems and whether these associations depend on child personality. A total of 206 children ( M age = 9.93 years; 46.6% female) along with their mothers and fathers ( M age = 40.30 and 42.40 years) participated in this multi–informant diary study. All three family members filled out a diary each day for seven days. Multilevel analyses indicated that daily maternal and paternal psychological control were positively related to daily externalizing and internalizing problems, a pattern that was fairly consistent across informants. Out of the 35 interactions tested, only three turned out to be significant. Overall, the limited number of interactions suggests that psychologically controlling parenting is generally detrimental to children's daily functioning. Still, children differ somewhat in their susceptibility to the effect of psychologically controlling parenting. © 2018 European Association of Personality Psychology

scholarly journals Does daily distress make parents prone to using psychologically controlling parenting?

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaisa Aunola ◽  
Jaana Viljaranta ◽  
Asko Tolvanen
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Psychological Control ◽  
Daily Variation ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Multilevel Modelling ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Controlling Parenting ◽  
High Level ◽  
Psychologically Controlling Parenting

The aim of the present study was to investigate whether parental daily distress in terms of negative emotions is associated with the daily variation in parental use of psychological control with their children. Whether parental positive emotions play a role in the use of psychological control was also investigated. The participants were 149 Finnish families with a child between the ages of 6 and 7 years. Parents’ negative and positive emotions, children’s misconduct, and parental use of psychological control when interacting with their children were measured daily using diary questionnaires filled in by the mothers and fathers over 7 successive days in the fall term of the children’s first grade and, for replication purposes, again in the spring term. The results of multilevel modelling showed that, after controlling for the level of children’s misconduct on a particular day, mothers’ and fathers’ negative daily emotions were related to a high level of psychological control in parenting. This relation was evident particularly when combined with parental perception of a high level of child misconduct. Positive emotions, in turn, were not found to be related to the daily variation in the use of psychological control. The results showed further that, at the level of individuals, mothers’ and fathers’ high overall level of negative emotions across the week was related to a high overall level of psychologically controlling parenting.

Grandparents’ Parenting on Children’s Internalizing Symptoms: The Serial Mediation of Parents’ Psychological Control and Children’s Emotion Regulation

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (17) ◽  
pp. 3996-4018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia Li ◽  
Nigela Ahemaitijiang ◽  
Zhuo Rachel Han ◽  
Zhuyun Jin
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Internalizing Problems ◽  
Internalizing Symptoms ◽  
Psychological Control ◽  
Parental Psychological Control ◽  
Behavioral Observations ◽  
Children's Emotion ◽  
Serial Mediation

The current study aimed to investigate the intergenerational transmission of parenting and internalizing problems in children. Serial mediation models were used to assess parental psychological control and child emotion regulation as mediators in linking grandparents’ parenting (care or overprotection) and children’s internalizing problems. The sample consisted of 150 Chinese children ( Mage = 8.54, SD = 1.67) and their parents. The parents reported the grandparents’ parenting and children’s internalizing problems, and the children reported on their emotion regulation. Both the children’s ratings and behavioral observations were used to assess the parents’ psychological control. The results showed that grandmothers’ parenting was significantly associated with children’s internalizing problems, and this relationship was mediated by perceived (but not observed) parental psychological control and children’s emotion regulation. These results highlighted the differential role of children’s perceptions of parental control and the observed parental psychological control on internalizing symptoms in children.

Psychologically Controlling Parenting during Toddlerhood: The Role of Mothers’ Perceived Parenting History and Emotion Regulation Style

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 2257-2267
Author(s):  
Katrijn Brenning ◽  
Bart Soenens ◽  
Jolene Van der Kaap-Deeder ◽  
Lisa Dieleman ◽  
Maarten Vansteenkiste
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Perceived Parenting ◽  
Controlling Parenting ◽  
Psychologically Controlling Parenting
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