Parental psychological control: a brief review of the literature

Authors

  • Mariangela Abbate Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Caserta. Autore responsabile per la corrispondenza: mariangela_abbate@outlook.it
  • Sebastiano Costa Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Caserta.

Keywords:

parental psychological control, Self-Determination Theory, antecedents, outcomes

Abstract

The scientific literature is full of studies demonstrating that parental use of manipulative educational strategies, such as love withdrawal or guilt induction, may be associated with maladaptive developmental outcomes in children, adolescents, and young adults. These dimensions of parenting can be grouped within the construct of parental psychological control, which despite having been widely studied, is still little used. For this reason, the goal of this synthesis is to describe parental psychological control, its dimensions, associations with developmental outcomes, and the current theoretical framework within the Self-Determination Theory.

 

doi: 10.53240/2023topic3.0.34.03

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2023-07-30

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Abbate, M., & Costa, S. (2023). Parental psychological control: a brief review of the literature. TOPIC - Temi Di Psicologia dell’Ordine Degli Psicologi Della Campania, 2(3). Retrieved from https://topic.oprc.it/index.php/topic/article/view/69

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Vol. 2 No. 3 (2023): TOPIC-Temi di Psicologia dell’Ordine degli Psicologi della Campania

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Psicologia dello sviluppo

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