The role of maternal communication style in adolescents’ motivation to change alcohol use: A vignette-based study

Adolescents' responses to parental regulation: The role of communication style and self-determination

“…Our first research goal was to examine associations of parental communication style and adolescents' personal self-determination with adolescents' perceptions of the situation of regulation, in terms of autonomy satisfaction and frustration, and perceived legitimacy. In line with previous research (e.g., Baudat et al, 2017;Chen et al, 2016;see also Koestner et al, 1984), when parents attempt to regulate adolescents' behavior using a psychologically controlling communication style, which included threats of love withdrawal and guilt induction, adolescents not only tend to feel more frustrated in their need for autonomy, they also are more inclined to believe that their parents have less legitimate authority to regulate their behavior. In contrast, when parents made use of an autonomysupportive communication style, which included attempting to take the child's perspective and offering an explanation, adolescents are more likely to feel satisfied in their need for autonomy and to perceive the parents' regulation as a legitimate request, corroborating previous research (e.g., Van Petegem et al, 2017a).…”

“…Moreover, higher levels of oppositional defiance in middle and late adolescence are associated with greater maladjustment, including more internalizing and externalizing problems (e.g., Aelterman, Vansteenkiste, & Haerens, 2019) and with a sense of being alienated from one's personally valued goals and interests (Van Petegem et al, 2015b). Further, previous studies among middle adolescents have found that a controlling, relative to an autonomy-supportive, communication style by parents is associated with more adolescent oppositional defiance, both cross-sectionally (e.g., Baudat et al, 2017) and longitudinally (Vansteenkiste et al, 2014). Parental regulation as such is not consistently predictive of adolescent oppositional defiance; this association is found only when parents attempt to regulate adolescents' behavior in a controlling way (Soenens, Vansteenkiste, & Niemiec, 2009;Van Petegem et al, 2015a).…”

“…Adolescents' responses to their parents' regulation have been found to be associated with parents' use of an autonomy-supportive versus psychologically controlling communication style (e.g., Baudat et al, 2017;Van Petegem et al, 2017b). However, few studies have tested whether adolescents' personal characteristics also play a role in their perceptions and reactions to situations of parental regulation of their academic behavior.…”

Does General Parenting Context Modify Adolescents' Appraisals and Coping with a Situation of Parental Regulation? The Case of Autonomy-Supportive Parenting

“…Further, a recent 7-item scale was used to assess whether adolescents would react through submission (Baudat et al, 2016;cf. Skinner & Zimmer-Gembeck, 2007), that is, by giving up the personal preferences, rigidly obeying to the demand, and ruminating about the situation (e.g., "I would find it difficult to think about something else"; "I would comply submissively").…”

« Où étais-tu et avec qui ? »

“…ex., école, consommation d'alcool) pouvait expliquer leur acceptation ou leur rejet par les adolescents (p. ex., Baudat, Zimmermann, Antonietti, & Van Petegem, 2017 ;Van Petegem, Soenens, Vansteenkiste, & Beyers, 2015 ;Van Petegem et al, 2017). Par analogie, face à des règles ou des sollicitations transmises au sein d'un climat familial contrôlant ou encore communiquées dans un style intrusif, les adolescents seraient plus enclins à dissimuler des informations.…”