Parental psychological control, adolescent self‐criticism, and adolescent depressive symptoms: A latent change modeling approach in Belgian adolescents

Abstract

Our results underscore the importance of personality-related vulnerability in associations between the parenting environment and symptoms of psychopathology during adolescent development.

Psychological reactance and negative emotional reactions in the link between psychological control and adolescent adjustment

“…Some adolescents might display a higher tendency to feel invaded or controlled, which rather than being a consequence of parental psychological control, might predispose adolescents to interpret even ambiguous parenting practices as psychologically controlling. Indeed, our findings are consistent with prior work by Bleys, Soenens, Claes, Vliegen, and Luyten () suggesting that associations between parenting (especially, parental psychological control) and symptoms of adolescent psychopathology need to consider the role of personality‐related vulnerability explicitly.…”

The link between parental psychological control, depressive symptoms and epigenetic changes in the glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1)

“…In the developmental and parenting literature most studies focus on the influence of mothers and therefore the studies regarding father-child relationship are rare (61). One of the results in our study was that psychological control of both mother and father significantly predicted the depressive symptoms of adolescents, which is in line with a recent study highlighting the importance of paternal parenting for adolescents (47). This finding is important, as it supports the need for inclusion of fathers in both research and parental training programs, as the contribution of the father to adolescent mental well-being might have been largely underestimated.…”

“…Exclusion criteria were families with members who had a serious medical illness (e.g., cancer, recent physical injury or physical disability). This study was approved by the ethical committees of the KU Leuven and Ghent University, for details please see our previous report (47).…”

The intergenerational transmission of trait emotional intelligence: The mediating role of parental autonomy support and psychological control

“…At the opposite, parental psychological control is consistently associated with maladjustment and ill-being (Soenens & Vansteenkiste, 2010). Previous studies have shown, in fact, positive relations with depressive symptoms (Bleys, Soenens, Claes, Vliegen, & Luyten, 2018), frustration intolerance (Filippello, Harrington, Costa, Buzzai, & Sorrenti, 2018) and relational aggression (Baumgardner & Boyatzis, 2017). Although abundant research emphasized the importance of parental psychological controlling and autonomy-supportive behaviours for adolescent emotional development, evidence on the association between parental psychological control, parental autonomy support and trait EI is limited (Gugliandolo et al, 2015a).…”