Dieleman, LM;
Soenens, B;
De Pauw, SSW;
Prinzie, P;
Vansteenkiste, M;
Luyten, P;
(2020)
The Role of Parental Reflective Functioning in the Relation between Parents' Self-Critical Perfectionism and Psychologically Controlling Parenting Towards Adolescents.
Parenting: Science and Practice
, 20
(1)
pp. 1-27.
10.1080/15295192.2019.1642087.
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Abstract
Objective: Parental self-critical perfectionism has been identified as an important source of parents’ psychologically controlling parenting. Nevertheless, it remains unclear how this well-established association can be explained. This study aims to advance insight in the association between parental self-critical perfectionism and psychological control by addressing the role of parental reflective functioning among parents of adolescents. Design: This cross-sectional study included 268 adolescents (Mage = 15.14 years, 50.7% female), mothers (Mage = 45.83 years), and fathers (Mage = 47.77 years). Parents completed questionnaires assessing self-critical perfectionism, parental reflective functioning, psychologically controlling parenting, and their child’s problem behaviors. In addition, adolescents rated their parents’ use of psychological control. Results: Self-critical perfectionism related both directly and indirectly, via parents’ pre-mentalization, to psychological control among mothers and fathers. Most associations remained significant when controlling for adolescent problem behaviors. Conclusions: This incapacity to reflect on the adolescent’s mental world, and the tendency to make maladaptive attributions about the adolescent’s internal states, make parents with high levels of self-critical perfectionism vulnerable to rely on psychologically controlling parenting.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | The Role of Parental Reflective Functioning in the Relation between Parents' Self-Critical Perfectionism and Psychologically Controlling Parenting Towards Adolescents |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1080/15295192.2019.1642087 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2019.1642087 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
Keywords: | Parental reflective functioning, Psychological control, Self-critical perfectionism, Adolescence, Parenting |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10073433 |
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