When is Parental Monitoring Effective? A Person-centered Analysis of the Role of Autonomy-supportive and Psychologically Controlling Parenting in Referred and Non-referred Adolescents
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Over the last few years, the protective role of parental monitoring on adolescent adjustment (i.e., active parental efforts aimed at setting limits and tracking adolescents' activities and whereabouts) has been challenged. Recent research has shifted attention to the conditions under which monitoring may be more or less effective. Grounded in Self-Determination Theory, this study investigated the role of parents' autonomy-supportive and psychologically controlling parenting in effects of parental monitoring on adolescents' adjustment. It also considered the role of adolescents' clinical status (i.e., clinically referred vs non-referred). Adopting a person-centered approach, we aimed to identify naturally occurring profiles of monitoring, autonomy-support, and psychological control and to examine differences between these profiles in terms of life satisfaction, positive affect, and internalizing and externalizing problems. Participants included 218 referred (M age = 14.44, 56% girls) and 218 matched adolescents from a larger sample of 1056 community (Mage = 14.83, 52.9% girls). Multigroup Latent Profile Analyses revealed five parenting profiles which were structurally equivalent in both samples: high monitoring with either high autonomy support or high psychological control, low monitoring with either high autonomy-support or high psychological control, and an average profile. Referred youth were significantly more present in the average profile and in the profiles characteriz…
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The setting of expectations, the monitoring of whereabouts, and the provision of feedback can be done in more autonomy-supportive or controlling ways.
“Rather, the setting of expectations (Vansteenkiste et al. 2012), the monitoring of whereabouts (Rodriguez-Meirinhos et al. 2019), and the provision of feedback (Carpentier and Mageau 2013) can be done in more autonomy-supportive or controlling ways”
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- Authors
- Rodríguez-Meirinhos, A., Vansteenkiste, M., Soenens, B., Oliva, A., Brenning, K., & Antolín-Suárez, L.
- Affiliations
- Ghent University (BE)
- Venue
- Journal of Youth and Adolescence
- Published
- 2019-10-29
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 352-368
- ISSN
- 0047-2891 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-6601
- OpenAlex
- W2982502225
- Cited by
- 92
- References
- 89
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 3
- FWCI
- 10.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Youth and Adolescence (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Ministry of Education and Professional Training (FPU 14/02888)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Keywords
- parental supervision, parental autonomy support, psychological control, adolescent adjustment, self-determination theory, parenting profiles, life satisfaction, internalizing problems, externalizing problems, positive affect
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Psychology, Adolescent, Defense Mechanisms, Female, Humans, Male, Parent-Child Relations, Parents, Self Concept, Parenting, Personal Autonomy
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