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

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

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Supplemental Material for The Moderating Role of Adolescent Personality in Associations Between Psychologically Controlling Parenting and Problem Behaviors: A Longitudinal Examination at the Level of Within-Person Change

Developmental Psychology ◽

10.1037/dev0000802.supp ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Problem Behaviors ◽

Controlling Parenting ◽

Longitudinal Examination ◽

Moderating Role ◽

Psychologically Controlling Parenting ◽

Adolescent Personality

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Integrative emotion regulation: Process and development from a self-determination theory perspective

Development and Psychopathology ◽

10.1017/s0954579419000403 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 31 (3) ◽

pp. 945-956 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Guy Roth ◽

Maarten Vansteenkiste ◽

Richard M. Ryan

Keyword(s):

Emotion Regulation ◽

Well Being ◽

Self Determination Theory ◽

Self Determination ◽

Supportive Parenting ◽

Supportive Environment ◽

Controlling Parenting ◽

Process View ◽

Avoidance Suppression

AbstractGrounded in self-determination theory's (SDT; Ryan & Deci, 2017) organismic perspective, we present a process view of integrative emotion regulation. SDT describes three general types of emotion regulation: integrative emotion regulation, which focuses on emotions as carrying information that is brought to awareness; controlled emotion regulation, which is focused on diminishing emotions through avoidance, suppression, or enforced expression or reappraisal; and amotivated emotion regulation, in which emotions are uncontrolled or dysregulated. We review survey and experimental research contrasting these emotion regulation styles, providing evidence for the benefits of integrative emotion regulation for volitional functioning, personal well-being, and high-quality relationships, and for the costs of controlled emotion regulation and dysregulation. The development of emotion regulation styles is discussed, especially the role of autonomy-supportive parenting in fostering more integrative emotion regulation, and the role of controlling parenting in contributing to controlled or dysregulated emotion processing. Overall, integrative emotion regulation represents a beneficial style of processing emotions, which develops most effectively in a nonjudgmental and autonomy-supportive environment, an issue relevant to both development and psychotherapy.

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