The Role of Parental Psychological Control and Warmth in College Students’ Relational Aggression and Friendship Quality

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Baumgardner ◽  
Chris J. Boyatzis
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Relational Aggression ◽  
Psychological Control ◽  
Friendship Quality ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Parental Warmth ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Parental Psychological Control

This study investigated the role of perceived parental psychological control and warmth in college students’ friendship quality and use of relational aggression with peers. College students ( N = 237) completed self-report measures assessing their relational aggression, friendship quality, and parents’ perceived use of psychological control and warmth. As predicted, college students’ relational aggression partially mediated the relation between perceived parental psychological control and friendship quality. Moderation analyses indicated that perceived parental warmth exacerbated the negative effects of perceived parental psychological control on college students’ relational aggression and friendship quality. Thus, perceived parental psychological control is associated with students’ elevated relational aggression and poor friendship quality, especially when parents are viewed as warm as accepting.

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.

scholarly journals The Intervening Role of Relational Aggression between Psychological Control and Friendship Quality

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 661-681 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bart Soenens ◽  
Maarten Vansteenkiste ◽  
Luc Goossens ◽  
Bart Duriez ◽  
Christopher P. Niemiec
Keyword(s):  
Relational Aggression ◽  
Psychological Control ◽  
Friendship Quality

scholarly journals Spanish validation of the Parental Psychological Control Scale and Parental Psychological ControlDisrespect Scale

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-120
Author(s):  
Carmen Rodríguez-Menéndez ◽  
María de las Mercedes Inda-Caro ◽  
Carmen-María Fernández-García ◽  
Lindsay Martínez-García
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Control ◽  
Group Analysis ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Control Scale ◽  
Parental Psychological Control ◽  
Spanish Validation ◽  
Two Samples

The construct “parental psychological control” has been used to refer to those parental behaviors that interfere with the children’s thoughts and feelings. Examples of this type of behaviors would be inducing guilt or shame as well as the withdrawal of affection. The objective of this study was to validate and adapt the Spanish version of the Psychological Control Scale-Youth Self-Report (PCS-YSR) and the Psychological Control-Disrespect Scale (PCDS) and to analyze if the parental psychological control is defined as one dimension or two dimensions through manipulative and disrespectful behaviors towards adolescents. Also, the unique contribution of parental psychological control in predicting adolescent’s self-concept was examined. In two samples of undergraduate university students (the first, N = 367, mean age = 19.8, women=62.7%, men=37.3%, and the second, N= 312, mean age=19.7, women=73.9%, men=26.1%), exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses confirmed the hypothesized factor structure of the PCS-YSR and the PCDS, for both paternal and maternal ratings. Convergent validity was confirmed by consistent associations between both measures of parental psychological control and other measures of parental autonomy support and parental psychological control. The multi-group analysis confirmed that parental psychological control had a negative influence on self-concept. The results indicated that both scales are useful instruments for assessing parental psychological control.

The effect of parent–adolescent relationship quality on deviant peer affiliation: The mediating role of self-control and friendship quality

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (10-11) ◽  
pp. 2714-2736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fangsong Liu ◽  
Harold Chui ◽  
Man Cheung Chung
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Friendship Quality ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Deviant Peer Affiliation ◽  
Peer Affiliation ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Adolescent Relationship

Previous research demonstrated the association between parent–adolescent relationship quality and deviant peer affiliation, but it is unclear whether this relation is mediated by other psychological and interpersonal variables, whether father– and mother–adolescent relationship quality have different pathways in predicting deviant peer affiliation, and whether gender moderates these associations. A sample of 543 students from grades 10 to 12 (42.7% male; age M = 16.2 years, SD = 1.0) was selected from a Chinese high school in Shenzhen, China. They provided demographic variables and completed self-report measures of father– and mother–adolescent relationship quality, self-control, friendship quality, and deviant peer affiliation. The results showed that lower father–adolescent relationship quality was associated with lower self-control, which in turn was associated with higher deviant peer affiliation. Mother–adolescent relationship quality did not have direct or indirect association with deviant peer affiliation. In addition, male and female adolescents had no significant difference in the associations between father– and mother–adolescent relationship quality, self-control, friendship quality, and deviant peer affiliation. Implications and limitations of these findings were discussed.

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