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Mabbe, Elien; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Brenning, Katrijn; De Pauw, Sarah; Beyers, Wim; Soenens, Bart – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Although abundant research has demonstrated associations between psychologically controlling parenting and adolescent problem behavior, little is known about the moderating role of adolescent personality herein. This study examined whether adolescent personality moderates the associations between parental psychological control and internalizing…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Parenting Styles
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van der Kaap-Deeder, Jolene; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Soenens, Bart; Mabbe, Elien – Developmental Psychology, 2017
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 (M[subscript age] youngest child = 8.54 years; SD = 0.89 and…
Descriptors: Children, Well Being, Parent Role, Mothers
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Ahmad, Ikhlas; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Soenens, Bart – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Although the effects of important parenting dimensions, such as responsiveness and psychological control, are well documented among Western populations, research has only recently begun to systematically identify psychological processes that may account for the cross-cultural generalization of these effects. A first aim of this study was to…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Child Rearing
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Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Davies, Patrick T.; Cicchetti, Dante; Manning, Liviah G. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Our goal in the present study was to examine the specificity of pathways among interparental violence, maternal emotional unavailability, and children's cortisol reactivity to emotional stressors within interparental and parent-child relationships. The study also tested whether detrimental family contexts were associated, on average, with…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Family Violence, Parent Child Relationship, Biochemistry
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Ojanen, Tiina; Perry, David G. – Developmental Psychology, 2007
This 1-year longitudinal study examined early adolescents' (N=278, age 11-13 years) perceptions of their mother's behavior (affection, knowledge of child's activities, and psychological control) and of how they react to their mother (trust in mother, defiance, and debilitation) as predictors of self-esteem among peers. Perceived maternal affection…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Mothers, Adolescents, Psychology
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Markova, Gabriela; Legerstee, Maria – Developmental Psychology, 2006
Predictions about the role of contingency, imitation, and affect sharing in the development of social awareness were tested in infants during natural, imitative, and yoked conditions with their mothers at 5 and 13 weeks of age. Results showed that at both ages, infants of highly attuned mothers gazed, smiled, and vocalized positively more during…
Descriptors: Mothers, Imitation, Infants, Interpersonal Competence
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Aunola, Kaisa; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Developmental Psychology, 2004
This study investigated the extent to which mothers' psychological control predicts their children's mathematical performance during the children's transition from preschool to primary school over and above the impact of maternal affection and behavioral control. Also investigated was the extent to which maternal affection and behavioral control…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Psychological Needs, Psychology, Child Rearing