Perceived parental psychological control and school learned helplessness: The role of frustration intolerance as a mediator factor

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 360-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pina Filippello ◽  
Neil Harrington ◽  
Sebastiano Costa ◽  
Caterina Buzzai ◽  
Luana Sorrenti
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Learned Helplessness ◽  
Psychological Control ◽  
Control School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Frustration Intolerance ◽  
Parental Psychological Control ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Maternal Psychological Control ◽  
Age Range

The present study aims to investigate the relation between perceived parental psychological control, school learned helplessness and mastery orientation, and also to test frustration intolerance as a mediator in the relation between perceived psychological control and school learned helplessness. The sample consisted of 214 (86 male and 128 female) high school students with an age range between 17- and 19- years ( M = 18.20; DS = 0.98). Results indicated that maternal psychological control positively predicts frustration intolerance, and that in turn, frustration intolerance positively predicts school learned helplessness. Furthermore, there was a significant indirect effect of frustration intolerance in the link between maternal psychological control and school learned helplessness, pointing to an important mediating role for frustration intolerance. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

The mediating role of maladaptive perfectionism in the association between psychological control and learned helplessness

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pina Filippello ◽  
Rosalba Larcan ◽  
Luana Sorrenti ◽  
Caterina Buzzai ◽  
Susanna Orecchio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Learned Helplessness ◽  
Psychological Control ◽  
Parental Psychological Control ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Maladaptive Perfectionism ◽  
Relevant Role ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

Despite the extensive research on parental psychological control, no study has explored the relation between parental and teacher psychological control, maladaptive perfectionism and learned helplessness (LH). The purpose of this study was to investigate (1) whether perceived teacher psychological control predicts positively LH, (2) whether perceived parental psychological control predicts maladaptive perfectionism, and (3) whether the association between perceived parental and teacher psychological control and LH is mediated by maladaptive perfectionism. In a sample of 433 participants, 268 females (61.9%) and 165 males (38.1%), ranged in age from 13 to 19 years ( M = 15.38, standard deviation (SD) = 1.18), it was found that teacher psychological control has a more relevant role in the prediction of LH than parental control. Moreover, maladaptive perfectionism was a full mediator of the relationship between perceptions of teacher psychological control and LH. These results extend previous studies on teacher psychological control and, for the first time, provide evidence for the relation with LH, identifying maladaptive perfectionism as a variable that accounts for the relation between teacher psychological control and LH.

scholarly journals Risk eating behaviors, perception of parental practices and assertive behaviors in high school students

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Leticia Bautista-Díaz ◽  
Ariana Ibeth Castelán-Olivares ◽  
Armando Martin-Tovar ◽  
Karina Franco-Paredes ◽  
Juan Manuel Mancilla-Díaz
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Psychological Control ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
School Students ◽  
Parental Practices ◽  
Assertive Behavior ◽  
Maternal Psychological Control ◽  
Eat 26

Background: Late adolescence is considered a risk stage for psychological health. The objective of this research was evaluating the association among risk eating behaviors (REB), parental practices and assertive behavior in high school students according to sex. Method: With a non-experimental design and transversal study participated 200 students (104 men and 96 women) from a public high school with age mean of 16.52 (SD = 1.05 years), who after signing informed consent fulfilled the Eating Attitudes Test-26 (EAT), the Scale of Parental Practices for Adolescents (PP-A) which has nine subscales, four towards the father (PPf) and five towards the mother (PPm) and the Assertive Behavior Scale (CABS), all of them validated for Mexican population. Results: Differential associations were found according to sex: in women, EAT-26-Total was associated with CABS-Total, parental Communication, maternal Imposition and maternal Psychological Control (rs = -.36, .25, -.28, -.36, respectively); but in men, was only associated with parental Imposition (rs = -.30). The CABS-Total was associated with all PPm subscales in women (range rs = .22 to .36) and in men only with Communication, Psychological and Behavioral Control (rs = .30 .35, -.23). Conclusion: The high school students –women to a greater degree– higher REB greater aggressive style (no assertiveness), greater maternal psychological control and less maternal behavioral control.

Adolescents' perceived parental psychological control and test anxiety: Mediating role of academic self-efficacy

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (9) ◽  
pp. 1573-1583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaobo Xu ◽  
Liandi Lou ◽  
Lixia Wang ◽  
Weiguo Pang
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Test Anxiety ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Psychological Control ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Parental Psychological Control ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Academic Self Efficacy

We examined the relationship between parental psychological control and their children's test anxiety in the Chinese cultural context, and tested the mediating role of the children's academic self-efficacy in this relationship. Chinese high-school students (N = 401, 158 boys and 243 girls), aged between 15 and 18 years, completed a self-report survey assessing parental psychological control, academic self-efficacy, and test anxiety. The results showed a positive association between parental psychological control and the students' test anxiety. The students' academic self-efficacy was negatively correlated with parental psychological control and the students' test anxiety. Additionally, results of structural equation modeling indicated that the students' academic self-efficacy partially mediated the effect of their perception of parental psychological control on their test anxiety. These results reveal the negative influence of parental psychological control on their children's test anxiety and identify academic self-efficacy as a mediating variable through which parental psychological control exerts effects on their children's test anxiety.

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