ArticleJournal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry2020
The association between current maternal psychological control, anxiety symptoms, and emotional regulatory processes in emerging adults.
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- A Systematic Review of "Helicopter Parenting" and Its Relationship With Anxiety and Depression.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Parental control and adolescent social anxiety: A focus on emotional regulation strategies and socioeconomic influences in China.The British journal of developmental psychology · 2025Article
- Influencing factors of maternal online health information-seeking behavior.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Emotion Dynamics among Late Adolescents and Emerging Adults: The Role of Maternal Privacy Invasion Perceptions.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2024Article
- Autonomic reactivity during acute social stress: exploratory investigation of an interaction by threat interpretation bias and emotion regulation difficulties.Anxiety, stress, and coping · 2024Article
- Parental psychological control and adolescent social problems: The mediating effect of emotion regulation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesHigh levels of psychological control (PC), the (intentional or unintentional) attempt by parents to control their child's emotional experience, have been associated with increased risk for anxiety in youth. However, little is known regarding the association between PC and anxiety in emerging adulthood, a developmental period marked by various life transitions and high risk for the onset of internalizing symptoms, or about the relation between current parental PC and emotional regulatory processes during this stage. The current study examined whether perceived maternal PC was significantly associated with anxiety symptoms and both objective (psychophysiological; respiratory sinus arrhythmia) and subjective (self-reported) emotion regulatory processes.
methodsParticipants (N = 125; ages 18 to 25) completed self-reports on their anxiety symptoms, emotion regulation abilities, and perceptions of their mother' behavior, and participated in a laboratory stressor, the Trier-Social Stress Test, while psychophysiological data were acquired.
resultsEmerging adults who reported higher maternal PC also reported higher anxiety symptoms and evidenced greater emotion regulation difficulties on both objective and subjective indices than those who reported lower maternal PC. Moreover, the association between PC and anxiety levels was statistically mediated by self-reported emotion regulation difficulties. LIMITATIONS: Results of this study should be interpreted in light of its limitations, which include it being cross-sectional in nature with a primarily female sample. Further, perceptions of maternal, but not paternal, parenting were examined.
conclusionsFindings might have implications for targeting both psychological control and emotion regulation difficulties in personalized anxiety interventions during this high-risk developmental period.
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