“…Although the vast majority of research in the area is predominantly focused on maternal parenting style (Cabrera, Tamis-LeMonda, Bradley, Hofferth, & Lamb, 2000;Simons & Conger, 2007) current results are in line with several studies which found that paternal but not maternal authoritarian parenting practices including psychological control are linked to increased relational aggression in children (Nelson & Crick, 2002;Nelson, Hart, Yang, Olsen, & Jin, 2006) and to relational and overt aggression in emerging adults (Little & Seay, 2014). In addition, a recent longitudinal study which assessed paternal and maternal psychological control simultaneously by employing a regression analysis found that only fathers' psychological control significantly contributed to externalising and internalising problems in adolescent children (Lansford, Laird, Pettit, Bates, & Dodge, 2014) further emphasising the paternal role in children's behavioural and emotional development.…”