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Extant literature has demonstrated rather systematically the detrimental role of parental psychological control (i.e., autonomy-suppressing parenting involving manipulative and intrusive practices) in youths’ adjustment across culturally diverse samples. However, whether parental guilt-induction, a specific and relational element of psychological control, relates to offspring’s maladaptation in the same way across cultures is an issue of ongoing debate. Based on the Self-Determination Theory, it can be expected that parental guilt-induction generally undermines children’s functioning by thwarting their basic and universal psychological needs. Accordingly, in this theory guilt-induction is expected to be more detrimental to youths’ adjustment than more autonomy-supportive parental practices, an effect that would occur across cultures. On the other hand, according to the culture-specific perspective, guilt-inducing practices may not be harmful among people and families espousing collectivistic values as these practices could be considered part of the normative socialization process. Guilt-induction would then be consistent with the cultural values of relatedness and group harmony and might therefore not be harmful. There is evidence that parents endorsing collectivistic values more often rely on psychological control and guilt-induction than their counterparts who endorse individualistic ones. However, it is less clear whether such differences in cultural values moderate the relation of parental guilt-induction to children’s adjustment. It is also unclear whether the presence of parental warmth and care attenuates the relations of parental guilt-induction to children’s adjustment across families promoting collectivistic rather than individualistic values. Hence, in the present research, we are particularly interested in how young adults who differ in individualistic and collectivistic cultural values perceive and deal with guilt-induction in the presence and absence of maternal warmth. Participants from Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria will be randomly assigned to one of the three vignette conditions depicting maternal autonomy support, guilt-induction with warmth and guilt-induction without warmth. Participants’ perceived maternal guilt-induction, autonomy support and warmth, and need satisfaction, need frustration and emotion regulation strategies in response to the vignette will be investigated. |
