Parent-Child Attunement Moderates the Prospective Link between Parental Overcontrol and Adolescent Adjustment.

ABSTRACT: Parental overcontrol (OC), behavior that intrusively or dominantly restricts child autonomy, has been identified as a transdiagnostic risk factor for youth. However, it is as yet unknown whether the association between parental OC and child maladjustment remains even when OC is exerted infrequently or by attuned parents. Rather, the selective use of OC might steer children away from danger. Taking a developmental psychopathology approach, this study focuses on the larger parent-child relationship context, testing whether either the dose at which parents demonstrate OC or the degree to which children perceive their parents as attuned determines whether OC is risky or protective for adolescents' adjustment. Among a community sample of 114 families of children followed from the ages of 12-18,

SUBMITTER: Miller KF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8087184 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature