Parental Autonomy Support in Two Cultures: The Moderating Effects of Adolescents’ Self-Construals
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Parental autonomy support has been related to positive adolescent outcomes, however, its relation to outcomes in collectivist cultural groups is unclear. This study examined relations of specific autonomy supportive behaviors and outcomes among 401 adolescents (Mage = 12.87) from the United States (N = 245) and collectivist-oriented Ghana (N = 156). It also examined whether adolescents’ self-construals moderated the relations of specific types of autonomy support with outcomes. Factor analyses indicated two types of autonomy support: perspective taking/open exchange and allowance of decision making/choice. In both countries, perspective taking/open exchange predicted positive outcomes, but decision making/choice only did so in the United States. With regard to moderation, the more independent adolescents’ self-construals, the stronger the relations of decision making/choice to parental controllingness and school engagement.
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Marbell-Pierre et al. (2019) reported that parental provision of choice related to positive developmental outcomes among US, but not among Ghanaian adolescents.
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- Authors
- Marbell-Pierre, K. N., Grolnick, W. S., Stewart, A. L., & Raftery-Helmer, J. N.
- Affiliations
- Clark University
- Clark University (US)
- Venue
- Child Development
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2019-04-30
- Volume
- 90
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 825-845
- ISSN
- 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8624
- OpenAlex
- W2766271153
- Cited by
- 110
- References
- 63
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 6.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Child Development (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Clark Digital Commons (Clark University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Frances L. Hiatt School of Psychology
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Cultural Differences and Values
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- parental autonomy support, self-construal, collectivism, perspective taking, school engagement, cross-cultural comparison, United States, Ghana, adolescents
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Female, Ghana, Humans, Male, Parent-Child Relations, United States, Parenting, Personal Autonomy
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