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In search of the sources of psychologically controlling parenting: the role of parental separation anxiety and parental maladaptive perfectionism.(FAMILIES)(Brief article)

B. Soenens, M. Vansteenkiste, B. Duriez & L. Goossens, Journal of Research on Adolescence, v.16, n.4, 2006, pp.539-59.

This Belgian study investigated whether two parental characteristics--maladaptive perfectionism and separation anxiety--predict parental use of psychological control within parent--adolescent relationships, and whether psychological control mediates the effects of these parental characteristics on adolescent wellbeing. A total of 677 adolescents (337 males, mean age = 15.65 years) and their parents (540 mothers, 473 fathers) participated in the study. Parents completed questionnaires measuring separation anxiety, perfectionism and psychological control as ...

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