Parenting Dimensions and Internalizing Difficulties in Italian and US Emerging Adults: The Intervening Role of Autonomy and Relatedness

被引：47

作者：

Inguglia, Cristiano ^{[1
]}

Ingoglia, Sonia ^{[1
]}

Liga, Francesca ^{[2
]}

Lo Coco, Alida ^{[1
]}

Lo Cricchio, Maria Grazia ^{[1
]}

Musso, Pasquale ^{[1
]}

Cheah, Charissa S. L. ^{[3
]}

Gutow, Mindy R. ^{[4
]}

Lim, Hui Jun ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Palermo, Dept Psychol Educ & Training Sci, Palermo, Italy

[2] Univ Messina, Dept Human & Social Sci, Messina, Italy

[3] Univ Maryland Baltimore Cty, Dept Psychol, Baltimore, MD 21228 USA

[4] Cent New Mexico Community Coll, Albuquerque, NM USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES | 2016年 / 25卷 / 02期

关键词：

Parental control; Culture as moderator; Emerging adulthood; Parental autonomy support; Intervening variables; SELF-DETERMINATION THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTROL; SUPPORT; INDEPENDENCE; ADOLESCENTS; EXPERIENCES; DEPRESSION; PROMOTION; PATHWAYS; ANXIETY;

D O I：

10.1007/s10826-015-0228-1

中图分类号：

D669 [社会生活与社会问题]; C913 [社会生活与社会问题];

学科分类号：

1204 ;

摘要：

The present study examined the associations between emerging adults' perceived parental psychological control and autonomy support, and their autonomy, relatedness and internalizing difficulties in Italy and the U.S. The participants included 494 Italian and 414 U.S. college students, between 18 and 28 years of age (Mean = 21.58, SD = 2.18). Our findings showed that dependency-oriented psychological control had no significant direct associations with autonomy, relatedness or internalizing difficulties. Moreover, the association between parental autonomy support and internalizing problems was fully intervened by autonomy and relatedness, whereas the association between achievement-oriented psychological control and anxiety and depressive symptoms was partially intervened by autonomy and relatedness. Finally, although parental psychological control and autonomy support had similar effects on maladjustment across the two countries, relatedness appeared to play a more central role as an intervening variable for anxiety in the Italian group than in the U.S. group. Overall, our findings highlighted the importance of examining parents' contributions to emerging adults' internalizing problems via autonomy support and psychological control across cultures.

引用

页码：419 / 431

页数：13

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