Loosening the Reins or Tightening Them? Complex Relationships Between Parenting, Effortful Control, and Adolescent Psychopathology
| Autor: | Jelle J. Sijtsema, Stefan Bogaerts, Theo A. Klimstra, Jenny A B M Houtepen, R. van der Lem |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Developmental Psychology |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Psychological control
media_common.quotation_subject Interpersonal communication ADJUSTMENT EMOTIONAL AUTONOMY SUSCEPTIBILITY Affect (psychology) 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology medicine ANXIETY 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Adolescent psychopathology Life-span and Life-course Studies Control (linguistics) Association (psychology) Autonomy support media_common MODERATORS Parenting Aggression TEMPERAMENT 05 social sciences ANTISOCIAL-BEHAVIOR ANTECEDENTS Externalizing and internalizing problems Effortful control Anxiety medicine.symptom Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Autonomy EXTERNALIZING PROBLEMS 050104 developmental & child psychology Psychopathology |
| Zdroj: | Child & Youth Care Forum, 48(1), 127-145. Springer New York |
| ISSN: | 1573-3319 1053-1890 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10566-018-9477-7 |
| Popis: | BackgroundAdolescents face major developmental tasks such as increasing individuation and establishing autonomy. These developmental tasks increase demands on adolescent self-control, hereby putting youth with poor effortful control at risk for psychopathology. Specific parenting behaviors might be warranted to buffer against this risk.ObjectiveThis study was designed to examine parenting-related risk and protective factors in the associations between effortful control and adolescent psychopathology. We hypothesized that youth with poor effortful control require more parental involvement (i.e., lower autonomy granting) to help complete these developmental tasks and subsequently avoid psychopathology.MethodsVia adolescent self-reports (N = 809), associations between effortful control, perceived parenting (i.e., psychological control and autonomy support), and externalizing (i.e., interpersonal aggression and rule-breaking) and internalizing problems (i.e., depressive and anxiety problems) were examined.ResultsRegression analyses supported our hypothesis in boys: higher levels of autonomy support exacerbated the negative association between effortful control and rule-breaking. In contrast, in girls this was the case for lower levels of autonomy support. For both genders, low autonomy support and psychological control exacerbated negative associations between effortful control and internalizing problems. No buffering effects of parenting were found.ConclusionsLow effortful control is associated with psychopathology in adolescents, but parenting can affect this association in several ways, depending on the type of psychopathology and the adolescent’s gender. Future research should focus on finding ‘optimal’ levels of parental control that can help avoid psychopathological problems in youth with poor effortful control. |
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