Parental Psychological Control and Adolescent Problematic Outcomes: A Multidimensional Approach

摘要

Objectives Parental psychological control is an emotionally manipulative parenting behavior that involves the use of tactics such as love withdrawal, guilt induction, and conditional approval and has been found to be particularly problematic for adolescent development. However, research has not yet examined whether psychological control is also best measured as a multidimensional construct during adolescence or whether various dimensions of psychological control are differentially predictive of adolescents' problematic outcomes. Therefore, the current study examined the factor structure of a measure commonly used to assess psychological control, the Psychological Control Scale-Youth Self-Report. Additionally, the current study examined whether specific dimensions of psychological control are differentially associated with adolescents' problematic outcomes, including over- and under-eating behaviors, risky cyber behaviors, substance use, and depressive symptoms.