ArticleChild and adolescent psychiatry and mental health2024
Parental psychological control and children's self-esteem: A longitudinal investigation in children with and without oppositional defiant problems.
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- Prevalence, comorbidity, and demographic patterns of oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder in Chinese children and adolescents: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- The Vicious Cycle Between Parental Psychological Control and Depressive Symptoms Among Chinese Early Adolescents: Highlighting the Mediating Role of Positivity and Sex Differences.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Educational Pathways, Parenting, and the Development of Self-Esteem from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Evidence from South Korea.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- Before Targeting Narcissistic Traits in Youth With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Developmental Aggression Assessment.International journal of developmental neuroscience : the official journal of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Self-esteem instability as a dynamic mechanism linking self-esteem and impostor syndrome within the context of maladaptive parenting.Discover mental health · 2026Review
- Examining the Roles of Parent-Child Gender Dyads in the Association Between Parental Psychological Control and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms in Chinese Families.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- From parental psychological control to hidden emotional pressure: a multimodal review of children's socio-emotional development.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- "Because I said so." - Collection and evaluation of parenting phrases in German-speaking samples.PloS one · 2026Article
- The impact of parental psychological control on adolescents' physical activity: the mediating role of self-control and the moderating role of psychological capital.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Oppositional defiant problems are among the most prevalent psychological problems among children and adolescents from China and across the world. Still little is understood about how self-esteem, in conjunction with parenting experiences, develops in children with oppositional defiant problems. We addressed this gap of knowledge in a two-year longitudinal study. Specifically, we explored how parental psychological control predicts children's self-esteem levels over time, and in turn, how children's self-esteem levels predict parental psychological control. We collected data in Chinese children (ages 8 to 13 at T1) with (N = 224) and without (N = 217) oppositional defiant problems, and tested three-wave cross-lagged panel models. Multigroup analyses showed that the associations between parental psychological control and children's self-esteem were the same for children with and without oppositional defiant problems. Results for the total sample revealed bi-directional associations between maternal psychological control and children's self-esteem. Children who perceived more psychological control from their mothers were likely to exhibit lower self-esteem over time, and vice versa, children with lower self-esteem were likely to perceive more maternal psychological control over time. Conversely, a unidirectional paternal effect was observed in father-child dyads. Our findings help understand the parent-child dynamics that shape the psychological development of children with oppositional defiant problems.
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