I won't obey!: Psychologically Controlling Parenting and (Non)-Clinical Adolescents' Responses to Rule-setting.
- Brenning KM Department of Developmental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
- Antrop I Department of Developmental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
- Van Petegem S IP (Institut de Psychologie), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Soenens B Department of Developmental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
- De Meulenaere J Department of Developmental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
- Rodríguez-Meirinhos A Evolutionary Psychology of Education, University of Seville, Seville, Spain.
- Vansteenkiste M Department of Developmental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
- 2019-01-24
Published in:
- Journal of clinical psychology. - 2019
adolescence
internalizing and externalizing problems
parenting
responses to rule-setting
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior
Behavioral Symptoms
Female
Humans
Male
Mother-Child Relations
Parenting
Problem Behavior
English
OBJECTIVES
This study examined associations between maternal psychologically controlling parenting and adolescents' responses to rule-setting as well as the link between both study variables and adolescents' internalizing and externalizing problems.
METHOD
Both clinical and nonclinical adolescents reported upon maternal psychological control, responses to rule-setting (i.e., oppositional defiance, submissive compliance, negotiation, and accommodation) and both adolescents and mothers reported upon adolescents' problems.
RESULTS
Perceived psychological control related positively to adolescents' oppositional defiance and submissive compliance and negatively to negotiation and accommodation. Further, an integrated path model indicated that psychological control related to externalizing problems via oppositional defiance and internalizing problems via submissive compliance.
CONCLUSIONS
Psychological control relates to different types of problem behaviors via diverse responses to maternal rule-setting. The discussion emphasizes the importance of future prevention and intervention programs to focus on both parenting and on adolescents' active contribution to their socialization process.
This study examined associations between maternal psychologically controlling parenting and adolescents' responses to rule-setting as well as the link between both study variables and adolescents' internalizing and externalizing problems.
METHOD
Both clinical and nonclinical adolescents reported upon maternal psychological control, responses to rule-setting (i.e., oppositional defiance, submissive compliance, negotiation, and accommodation) and both adolescents and mothers reported upon adolescents' problems.
RESULTS
Perceived psychological control related positively to adolescents' oppositional defiance and submissive compliance and negatively to negotiation and accommodation. Further, an integrated path model indicated that psychological control related to externalizing problems via oppositional defiance and internalizing problems via submissive compliance.
CONCLUSIONS
Psychological control relates to different types of problem behaviors via diverse responses to maternal rule-setting. The discussion emphasizes the importance of future prevention and intervention programs to focus on both parenting and on adolescents' active contribution to their socialization process.
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- English
- Open access status
- green
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.1002/jclp.22750
- PMID 30672587
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/902
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