Relations Between Parent Psychological Control and Parent and Adolescent Social Aggression

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dc.contributor.authorMeter, D. J.
dc.contributor.authorEhrenreich, S. E.
dc.contributor.authorUnderwood, Marion K.
dc.contributor.utdAuthorUnderwood, Marion K.
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-30T16:52:01Z
dc.date.available2019-08-30T16:52:01Z
dc.date.created2018-09-13
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dc.description.abstractParent-child interactions and parenting behavior may be related to social aggression among adolescents, and adolescents’ social aggression may relate to parents’ social aggression. This study investigated (a) whether parent psychological control predicted future adolescent and parent social aggression in their own peer relationships, (b) whether parents’ social aggression was related to their use of psychological control within the parent-adolescent relationship (c) whether adolescents’ and parents’ social aggression was associated with changes in each other’s social aggression over time, and (d) change in psychological control. Participants were 174 racially/ethnically diverse parent-adolescent dyads assessed longitudinally for four years. Adolescents were approximately 15-years-old at the first time point. The adolescent sample was 52% girls and 56% identified as White, 22% as Black or African American, 16% as Hispanic, and 5% as mixed race/ethnicity. Ten percent of the parent participants were fathers. Parents self-reported their psychological control and social aggression, and their adolescents’ teachers reported adolescents’ social aggression. Hypotheses were tested using longitudinal structural equation modeling and a latent growth curve analysis. The hypothesized effect of parent’s psychological control on parent’s future aggression with their own peers was supported. Psychological control positively predicted parent aggression from T2 to T3 (β =.28, p <.05) and from T3 to T4 (β =.37, p <.05). Other hypotheses were not supported. The findings suggest that the parent-child relationship may influence the parent’s functioning in their own peer relationships. Parents’ peer relations seem to have important implications for their own well being and the parent-child relationship. ©2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
dc.description.departmentSchool of Behavioral and Brain Sciences
dc.description.sponsorshipNIH grants R01 MH63076, K02 MH073616, R56 MH63076, and R01 HD060995.
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationMeter, D. J., S. E. Ehrenreich, and M. K. Underwood. 2018. "Relations between Parent Psychological Control and Parent and Adolescent Social Aggression." Journal of Child and Family Studies 28(1): 140-151, doi:10.1007/s10826-018-1240-z
dc.identifier.issn1062-1024
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10735.1/6809
dc.identifier.volume28
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer New York LLC
dc.relation.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-018-1240-z
dc.rights©2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature
dc.source.journalJournal of Child and Family Studies
dc.subjectTeenagers
dc.subjectAggressiveness
dc.subjectParents
dc.subjectAfrican Americans
dc.subjectChildren
dc.subjectParent and child
dc.subjectEthnicity
dc.subjectFathers
dc.subjectWomen
dc.subjectGirls
dc.subjectHispanic Americans
dc.subjectHuman beings
dc.subjectMen
dc.subjectAge groups
dc.subjectRace
dc.subjectStructural equation modeling
dc.subjectTeachers
dc.subjectWell-being
dc.titleRelations Between Parent Psychological Control and Parent and Adolescent Social Aggression
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