Balancing boundaries: Observed parental autonomy support and psychological control in the context of parent-adolescent interactions and adolescent depression.

ABSTRACT: Autonomy support (AS) and psychological control (PC) are important parenting behaviors in adolescence, with low AS and high PC relating to adolescent depression. Studies on observed levels of AS and PC in a clinical sample are lacking. The current study aimed to (1) develop a reliable coding system for parental AS and PC in parent-adolescent interactions and gain insights into its ecological validity in a healthy control (HC) sample, and (2) disentangle observed and adolescent-perceived parenting behaviors in relation to adolescent depression. HC adolescents (N = 80, M_age = 15.90, 63.7% girls, 91.3% White) and their parents (N = 148, M_age = 49.00, 53.4% female, 97.3% White) and adolescents with depression (current MDD/dysthymia; N = 35, M_age = 15.60, 77.1%

SUBMITTER: Wentholt WGM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11771583 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature