Adolescents' Internalizing and Aggressive Behaviors and Perceptions of Parents' Psychological Control: A Panel Study Examining Direction of Effects

This panel study investigated the directionality of relations between adolescents' perceptions of their parents' psychological control and adolescents' self-reported internalizing and aggressive (physical and relational) behaviors. Data were collected from a random, community sample o...

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Published in:Journal of youth and adolescence 2007-07, Vol.36 (5), p.673-684
Main Authors: Albrecht, Arne K, Galambos, Nancy L, Jansson, S. Mikael
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescents
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Aggression
Aggressiveness
Antisocial Behavior
Anxiety
Behavior
Behavior Change
Biological and medical sciences
Child development
Children & youth
Control
Correlation
Family environment. Family history
Grade 5
Interpersonal Relationship
Juvenile delinquency
Longitudinal studies
Medical sciences
Mothers
Parent Child Relations
Parent Child Relationship
Parent-Child relationships
Parents & parenting
Perceptions
Prediction
Psychological Factors
Psychological Patterns
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Social behavior disorders. Criminal behavior. Delinquency
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Teenagers
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Summary:This panel study investigated the directionality of relations between adolescents' perceptions of their parents' psychological control and adolescents' self-reported internalizing and aggressive (physical and relational) behaviors. Data were collected from a random, community sample of 530 adolescents ages 12-19 years old at time 1, and again 2 years later. Hierarchical regression analyses found that adolescents' perceptions of parents' psychological control at baseline did not predict changes in adolescents' internalizing and aggressive behaviors over 2 years but higher internalizing behavior and physical aggression at time 1 predicted increases in adolescents' estimates of their mothers' and fathers' psychologically controlling behaviors. Higher relational aggression reported by adolescents at time 1 predicted increases in their perceptions of mothers as psychologically controlling. This study provides more evidence for child effects on adolescents' ratings of their parents' psychological control than for parent effects of perceived psychological control on adolescents' behavior.
ISSN:0047-2891
1573-6601
DOI:10.1007/s10964-007-9191-5