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Informant discrepancies in perceived parental psychological control, adolescent autonomy, and relatedness psychological needs
Francesca LigaSonia IngogliaAlida Lo CocoCristiano Ingugliasubject
Family systems theoryPsychological controlmedia_common.quotation_subjectPerceptionAutonomy and relatedness; Informant discrepancies; Latent difference score modeling; Parent-adolescent relationships; Psychological control; Self-determination theoryDevelopmental and Educational PsychologyPsychologyAutonomyInformant discrepancies Autonomy and relatedness Self-determination theory Parent-adolescent relationships Psychological control Latent difference score modelingmedia_commonDevelopmental psychologydescription
Abstract Framed from Self-Determination Theory and Family Systems Theory, the present multi-informant study sought to contribute to a better understanding of the relations between discrepancies in parents' and adolescents' perceptions of parental psychological control and satisfaction of adolescents' needs for autonomy and relatedness. Participants were 190 Italian intact families in which an adolescent was present (Mage = 16.47 years, SDage = 1.41). Our findings highlighted that: (1) adolescents generally tended to perceive higher levels of psychological control than their parents reported; (2) adolescents tended to rate mothers' psychological control higher than the mothers themselves, whereas adolescent reports of fathers' psychological control were not higher than the fathers' self-reports; (3) the discrepancies between fathers and adolescents in their perceptions of fathers' psychological control were associated with lower levels of satisfaction of the adolescents' need for relatedness, while the discrepancies between mothers and adolescents were associated with lower levels of satisfaction of the adolescents' need for autonomy.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-01 |