Maternal and paternal psychological control and adolescents' negative adjustment: A dyadic longitudinal study in three countries.

6533b862fe1ef96bd12c6479

RESEARCH PRODUCT

Maternal and paternal psychological control and adolescents' negative adjustment: A dyadic longitudinal study in three countries.

Maria Gerbino Ainzara Favini Eriona Thartori Jennifer E. Lansford Concetta Pastorelli Dario Bacchini Antonio Zuffianò Emanuele Basili Flavia Cirimele Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado Carolina Lunetti Laura Di Giunta

subject

Male Longitudinal study Culture Social Sciences Longitudinal Studie Anxiety Adolescents Developmental psychology Families Fathers Settore M-PSI/04 - Psicologia Dello Sviluppo E Psicologia Dell'Educazione cross-cultural Sociology Psychological control Medicine and Health Sciences Psychology Longitudinal Studies Human Families Parent-Child Relations Children Mother Multidisciplinary Parenting Depression Q R Antisocial Personality Disorder Italy Anxiety Medicine Female medicine.symptom Psychology Research Article Human Parent-Child Relation psychological control United State Adolescent Science Parenting Behavior Mothers Primary care Colombia Father Cross-Cultural Studies medicine Humans Cross-cultural Generalizability theory Practical implications Primary Care Behavior psychological control; adolescents; parental dyad; cross-cultural comparison Antisocial personality disorder Antisocial Behavior Biology and Life Sciences medicine.disease United States Health Care family studie Age Groups Adolescent Behavior People and Places Population Groupings adolescence

description

Psychological Control (PC) interferes with autonomy-related processes in adolescence and has a negative impact on adolescents’ development related to internalizing and externalizing problems. Several scholars suggested that PC can be used differently by mothers and fathers. However, these differences are still understudied and mainly grounded on maternal and/or adolescents’ perspectives, leading to potentially incomplete inferences on the effects of PC. The present study extends previous research on PC in two directions. First, we tested the dyadic and cumulative effects of maternal and paternal PC on adolescents’ antisocial behaviors and anxious-depressive symptoms. Secondly, we explored the cross-cultural generalizability of these associations in three countries: Italy, Colombia, and USA. Participants included 376 families with data from three consecutive years (T1, adolescents’ age = 13.70). Mothers’ and fathers’ reports of PC and youth’s reports of antisocial and internalizing behaviors were assessed. Using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM) we found that maternal PC predicted adolescents’ reported antisocial behaviors whereas paternal PC predicted lower anxious-depressed symptoms. Comparisons across countries evidenced the cross-cultural invariance of the longitudinal APIM across Italy, Colombia, and USA. The practical implications of these results are discussed.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2021-05-14	PLoS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0251437 https://doaj.org/article/5c0ae3843aa442efa8fd3f9f06ebaecc