Interactive effects of parental psychological control and autonomy support on emerging adults’ emotion regulation and self-esteem

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaopeng Gong ◽  
Cen Wang
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Autonomy Support ◽  
Psychological Control ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Parental Psychological Control

Mind games: Parental psychological control and emerging adults’ adjustment

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 695-714
Author(s):  
Amanda N. Faherty ◽  
Katie Lowe ◽  
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Direct Effect ◽  
Psychological Control ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Risky Behaviors ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Parental Psychological Control

Although parental psychological control has been consistently linked with negative outcomes in the child and adolescent literature, little is known about how it functions during the developmental time frame of emerging adulthood, which is characterized by increased freedom and instability. Consequently, this study examined the extent to which paternal and maternal psychological controls were directly and indirectly (via self-esteem) related to hallmarks of emerging adult adjustment, notably risky behaviors, life satisfaction, and feelings about adulthood status. Recruited via MTurk, participants were 310 emerging adults ( M age = 25.37; 56% female) across the U.S. who completed an online survey. Results revealed paternal psychological control had a direct effect on risky behaviors and self-esteem, whereas maternal psychological control solely had a direct effect on risky behaviors. Results also indicated indirect effects of paternal psychological control. Increases in paternal psychological control were linked to declines in self-esteem, which in turn was associated with decreased life satisfaction and endorsement of adulthood status. Altogether, findings suggest that even low levels of parental psychological control were linked to detrimental outcomes in an age-representative sample—encompassing the full age range of emerging adulthood from 18 years to 29 years—of emerging adults. Thus, findings contribute to a better understanding of parent–child relationships and the consequences of parental control during the third decade of life, which has important implications for informing parenting strategies across emerging adulthood.

scholarly journals Parental Psychological Control and Adolescent Adjustment: The Role of Adolescent Emotion Regulation

Parenting ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lixian Cui ◽  
Amanda Sheffield Morris ◽  
Michael M. Criss ◽  
Benjamin J. Houltberg ◽  
Jennifer S. Silk
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Psychological Control ◽  
Adolescent Adjustment ◽  
Parental Psychological Control

Perceived Parenting Practices and Adjustment

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 371-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan A. Jorgensen ◽  
Larry J. Nelson ◽  
Xinxing Duan
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Filial Piety ◽  
Psychological Control ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
Perceived Parenting ◽  
Cultural Construct ◽  
The Relationship

Filial piety is an important cultural construct in the lives and behaviors of Chinese emerging adults and may act as a moderating factor for the relationship between perceived parenting practices and indices of adjustment. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether or not filial piety moderates the influence of psychologically controlling and warm parenting behaviors on internalizing problems, self-esteem, and risk behaviors. Using a sample of Chinese college students ( N = 612), results from regression analyses indicated that filial piety moderated the relationship between psychological control and self-esteem, in that psychological control predicted lower self-esteem at high and moderate levels of filial piety values but was not related at low filial piety values. The discussion focuses on the possibility that filial piety may exacerbate the conflict between psychologically controlling tactics and autonomy.

Preliminary development and psychometrics characteristics of a multidimensional measure of Parental Psychological Control: The Inventory of Parental Psychological Control (IPPC)

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-84
Author(s):  
Francesca Cuzzocrea ◽  
Sebastiano Costa ◽  
Marco Cannavò ◽  
Maria Cristina Gugliandolo
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Concurrent Validity ◽  
Psychological Control ◽  
Study Item ◽  
Parental Psychological Control ◽  
Multidimensional Measure ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions

Although the broad research regarding parental psychological control, instruments to assess the multidimensionality of the construct are lacking. The aim of the present study was to de-velop multidimensional measure of parental psychological control. In the first study, item se-lection of the new Inventory of Parental Psychological Control (IPPC) was conducted using a set of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) in a sample of 209 emerging adults. The second study replicated the results by using different sets of analyses and independent sample of 400 emerging adults. In both studies, reliability and concurrent validity were also assessed. Re-sults suggested that both forms of IPPC are parallel with the theoretical assumptions and are psychometrically robust. IPPC can be used to assess multidimensionality of the construct.

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