Adolescents' responses to parental regulation: The role of communication style and self-determination
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This study examined whether adolescents' perceptions and reactions to parental regulation were predicted by parents' communication style and by adolescents' self-determination. Adolescents (N = 294; Mage = 14.3) reported their self-determination, and then read a hypothetical scenario of parental regulation of their academic behavior, whereby parents' communication style was either autonomy-supportive or psychologically controlling. Following the scenario, adolescents reported their perceptions of the situation (i.e., autonomy satisfaction, autonomy frustration, legitimacy) and their anticipated responses (i.e., oppositional defiance, negotiation). In response to psychological control, adolescents reported less autonomy satisfaction, more autonomy frustration, less legitimacy, and more defiance. Further, adolescents higher in self-determination reported less autonomy frustration, more legitimacy, less defiance, and more negotiation. Finally, self-determination moderated two effects of communication style: adolescents low on self-determination reported less legitimacy and more defiance in response to the psychologically controlling (vs. autonomy-supportive) situation. For adolescents high on self-determination, these between-vignette differences were not significant.
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Adolescents high and low on trait autonomous functioning experienced a controlling parental request to put out extra effort after poor exams as equally autonomy frustrating, but those high on trait autonomy did not perceive the request as illegitimate, nor did they intend to defy the request.
“To illustrate, adolescents high and low on trait autonomous functioning experienced a controlling parental request to put out extra effort after poor exams as equally autonomy frustrating, but those high on trait autonomy did not perceive the request as illegitimate, nor did they intend to defy the request, signaling a nuanced pattern of moderation (Van Petegem et al. 2019).”
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- Authors
- Van Petegem, S., Zimmer-Gembeck, M., Baudat, S., Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., & Zimmermann, G.
- Affiliations
- University of Lausanne (CH)
- Ghent University (BE)
- Venue
- Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-11
- Volume
- 65
- Pages
- 101073
- ISSN
- 0193-3973 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2984703929
- Cited by
- 32
- References
- 136
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- 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 3
- FWCI
- 3.51
- Type
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- Language
- en
- Open access
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- SERVAL (Université de Lausanne) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth
- Keywords
- parental regulation, parent-adolescent communication, psychological control, self-determination, autonomy satisfaction, autonomy frustration, perceived legitimacy, negotiation
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