How Parents Contribute to Children’s Psychological Health: The Critical Role of Psychological Need Support

Soenens, Bart; Deci, Edward L.; Vansteenkiste, Maarten

doi:10.1007/978-94-024-1042-6_13

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“…First, it is important to provide a comprehensive and at the same time a fine‐grained picture of the need‐thwarting conditions. SDT offers a useful framework in this regard because it distinguishes between three broad dimensions of need‐thwarting socialization: relatedness thwarting (i.e., cold, indifferent, and rejecting), competence thwarting (chaotic, unpredictable, and critical), and autonomy thwarting (intrusive, domineering, and controlling) (Soenens, Deci, & Vansteenkiste, ; Vansteenkiste & Soenens, ). Each of these dimensions could be involved somewhat differentially and uniquely in different dysfunctional traits.…”

Section: Relations Between Sdt and Wttmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflections on self‐determination theory as an organizing framework for personality psychology: Interfaces, integrations, issues, and unfinished business

Ryan

Soenens

Vansteenkiste

2018

Journal of Personality

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Objective This special issue focuses on self‐determination theory (SDT) as an integrative framework for the wider field of personality research. In this commentary our aims include: reflecting on the utility and strengths of SDT as such a general framework and responding to the various contributions in this issue regarding their use of SDT as a guiding, complementary, or contrasting framework. Methods and Results We describe how SDT has developed organically and conservatively from “within” based on the emerging patterns of evidence, as well through the ongoing challenges from other models and frameworks. We then discuss each of the various contributions to this special issue, addressing themes that include SDT’s breadth of methods, and its relevance to topics such as narcissism, wisdom, individual differences, Big‐Five traits, and the neuropsychology of motivation, among others. Across these discussions, we highlight fruitful avenues for research and cross‐fertilization across the fields of personality, development, motivation, and neuroscience. At the same time, we counter some claims made about SDT, and forward certain cautions regarding the integration of SDT and other personality frameworks and models. Conclusions We conclude by revisiting the value of broad theory, and SDT in particular, for coordinating complex research findings concerning motivation, personality development and wellness across multiple levels of analysis and, perhaps more importantly, for pointing researchers to the right questions within today’s prolific empiricism.

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Section: Relations Between Sdt and Wttmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflections on self‐determination theory as an organizing framework for personality psychology: Interfaces, integrations, issues, and unfinished business

Ryan

Soenens

Vansteenkiste

2018

Journal of Personality

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104

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“…Other studies found no relations between monitoring and delinquency ) or children's aggressive behaviour (Skinner et al 2014). Studies also show that perceived controlling parenting can hamper young people's need for autonomy and can lead to oppositional defiance (Soenens, Deci, and Vansteenkiste 2017).…”

Section: Parenting In Deprived Neighbourhoodsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Parents generally begin to relinquish control during adolescence but tend to retain control over situations related to the young person's safety or security for a relatively long time (Smetana 2017). Several studies emphasize the key importance of young people's experiences of autonomyand of parents' support of autonomyfor young people's psychosocial adjustment (Ryan, Deci, and Vansteenkiste 2016;Soenens, Deci, and Vansteenkiste 2017).…”

Section: Negotiation With the Familymentioning

confidence: 99%

‘I didn’t listen. I continued hanging out with them; they are my friends.’ The negotiation of independent socio-spatial behaviour between young people and parents living in a low-income neighbourhood

Visser

2019

Children's Geographies

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“…Caregivers’ behavioral and affective qualities that serve to meet the needs of children for relatedness, autonomy, and competence are accepted as sensitive parenting practices based on developmental theory and research (Vereijken et al, 1997; Dix, 2000; Carlson et al, 2004; Soenens et al, 2017). In particular, caregivers’ supportive and affectionate presence as well as autonomy granting are parenting practices that act to support children’s needs for protection, comfort, assistance, and independence as well as exploration, respectively (Carlson et al, 2004).…”

Section: Sensitive Parenting Practices In Early Childhoodmentioning

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Does Mothers’ Self-Construal Contribute to Parenting Beyond Socioeconomic Status and Maternal Efficacy? an Exploratory Study of Turkish Mothers

2018

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This study examined the relative contribution of mothers’ self-construal to parenting above and beyond family socioeconomic status (SES) and maternal efficacy beliefs about parenting. A total of 58 Turkish mothers and their preschool-aged children participated in dyadic tasks in the laboratory setting. For the measurement of parenting, direct behavioral observations of mother–child interactions in three interaction contexts were utilized, and mother ratings of emotion socialization were obtained. Mothers also reported on their parenting efficacy, self-construal, child temperament, and family demographics. Results revealed a more balanced endorsement of autonomous and relational self-characteristics as well as more sensitive parenting among higher SES mothers. Furthermore, mothers’ self-construal contributed unique variance to the prediction of sensitive parenting over and above SES, maternal efficacy and child temperament. Yet, in the prediction of negatively controlling parenting, mothers’ self-construal did not account for unique variance. Lower parenting efficacy and lower SES were the only predictors of punishing, overriding, and distress magnifying responses. Finally, results indicated a marginally significant indirect effect from SES to sensitive parenting via autonomous-related self-construal, controlling for the indirect effect of maternal efficacy.

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How Parents Contribute to Children’s Psychological Health: The Critical Role of Psychological Need Support

Cited by 192 publications

References 68 publications

Reflections on self‐determination theory as an organizing framework for personality psychology: Interfaces, integrations, issues, and unfinished business

Reflections on self‐determination theory as an organizing framework for personality psychology: Interfaces, integrations, issues, and unfinished business

‘I didn’t listen. I continued hanging out with them; they are my friends.’ The negotiation of independent socio-spatial behaviour between young people and parents living in a low-income neighbourhood

Does Mothers’ Self-Construal Contribute to Parenting Beyond Socioeconomic Status and Maternal Efficacy? an Exploratory Study of Turkish Mothers

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