Children’s daily well-being: The role of mothers’, teachers’, and siblings’ autonomy support and psychological control.

Abstract

This study examined the unique relations between multiple sources (i.e., mothers, teachers, and siblings) of perceived daily autonomy support and psychological control and children's basic psychological needs and well-being. During 5 consecutive days, 2 children from 154 families (Mage youngest child = 8.54 years; SD = .89 and Mage oldest child = 10.38 years; SD = .87) provided daily ratings of the study variables. Multilevel analyses showed that each of the sources of perceived autonomy support and psychological control related uniquely to changes in daily well-being and ill-being. These associations were mediated by experienced psychological need satisfaction and frustration, respectively. Overall, the findings testify to the dynamic role of autonomy support and psychological control in children's development. Implications for future research are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record

The Role of Child Personality in Effects of Psychologically Controlling Parenting: An Examination at the Level of Daily Fluctuations

“…In one of the few previous studies addressing between-day associations between parenting and child outcomes, Aunola et al (2013) found that children's negative emotions during a given day predicted decreases (rather than increases) in psychological control the next day. This negative betweenday association differs from the positive associations between children's negative emotions and parental psychological control typically obtained at the level of betweenperson differences (Barber, 1996; and at the level of within-day associations (Van der Kaap-Deeder, Soenens, et al, n.d.;Van der Kaap-Deeder, Vansteenkiste, et al, 2017). Future research on daily dynamics of parenting would do well to more systematically estimate and compare within-day and between-day associations.…”

“…Research convincingly demonstrated associations between psychologically controlling parenting and children's and adolescents' ill‐being and behavioural maladjustment (Barber & Xia, ; Soenens & Vansteenkiste, ). Recent studies began to show that such effects also occur on a day‐to‐day basis, with daily psychologically controlling parenting being related to daily maladjustment in children (Aunola et al, ; Van der Kaap‐Deeder, Vansteenkiste, et al, ). This study aimed to contribute to this emerging literature (i) by revisiting associations between daily parental psychological control and children's daily maladjustment using a multi‐informant approach and, most importantly, (ii) by investigating the role of children's personality at the level of within‐person variation in daily psychologically controlling parenting in the prediction of child outcomes, and (iii) by examining lagged associations between daily parental psychological control and child outcomes.…”

“…While previous diary studies already demonstrated associations between daily psychologically controlling parenting and children's daily maladjustment, these studies relied on single informants, focusing either on parent reports only (Aunola et al, ) or on child reports only (Van der Kaap‐Deeder, Vansteenkiste, et al, ). The present study included both parent and child reports of parenting and examined associations between both types of reports and parent‐reported child problems (externalizing problems and internal distress).…”

“…Extending this work, Mushquash and Sherry () showed that perceived daily maternal psychological control was related to undergraduate students' daily binge eating symptoms. Most recently, mothers' daily engagement in psychologically controlling parenting was found to relate to increases in elementary school children's daily maladjustment, even when controlling for the contribution of daily psychological control used by siblings and teachers (Van der Kaap‐Deeder, Soenens, et al, n.d.; Van der Kaap‐Deeder, Vansteenkiste, et al, ).…”

Psychological need frustration as a transdiagnostic process in associations of self‐critical perfectionism with depressive symptoms and eating pathology

“…This is important because mediation refers to dynamic processes that change across time (Selig & Preacher, 2009). Particularly in adolescence, personality (Klimstra, 2013), needbased experiences (Van der Kaap-Deeder, Vansteenkiste, Soenens, & Mabbe, 2017), and symptoms of psychopathology (Larson, Moneta, Richards, & Wilson, 2002) are highly susceptible to change. This raises the question of whether need frustration plays a role at (a) the between-person level (i.e., accounting for between-person differences in self-critical perfectionism and symptoms,) and (b) the within-person level (i.e., accounting for associations between intra-individual change in self-criticism and intra-individual change in symptoms).…”