Psychological Development and Education ›› 2019, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (4): 401-410.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2019.04.03

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The Curvilinear Relationship between Paternal and Maternal Psychological Control and Adolescents' Risk-taking Behavior: The Moderating Effect of Adolescents' Self-esteem

LIU Yanchun, CHEN Jiao   

  1. College of Education Science, Hubei Normal University, Huangshi 435002
  • Published:2019-08-28

Abstract: The current study aimed to investigate whether there were differential curvilinear relationships between fathers' and mothers' psychological control and adolescents' risk-taking behavior, and further to examine whether adolescents' self-esteem moderated the relationship between paternal and maternal psychological control and adolescents' risk-taking behavior. Two thousand five hundred and twenty adolescents aged from 11-year-old to 17-year-old (1226 boys, 1294 girls, M=13.78 years,SD=1.17) participated in our study, who were recruited from 4 middle and high schools in Beijing, Shandong and Hebei province. They were asked to finish the self-esteem scale (SES), the parental control scale and the adolescents' risk behavior questionnaire. The results showed that there was a U-shaped curve relationship between fathers' psychological control and adolescents' risk-taking behavior, while there was an inverted U-shaped relationship between the mothers' psychological control and adolescents' risk-taking behavior. Additionally, adolescents' self-esteem moderated the relationship between fathers' and mothers' psychological control and adolescents' risk-taking behavior. For adolescents with high levels of self-esteem, neither fathers' nor mothers' psychological control was associated with their risk-taking behavior. For adolescents with middle or low levels of self-esteem, there was a U-shaped curve relationship between fathers' psychological control and adolescents' risk-taking behavior, but an inverted U-shaped relationship between mothers' psychological control and adolescents' risk-taking behavior. Taken together, this study indicated that fathers' and mothers' parenting behavior may play a different role in adolescents' risk-taking behavior, which is especially true for the adolescents with middle or low levels of self-esteem.

Key words: risk-taking behavior, psychological control, self-esteem, adolescents

CLC Number: 

  • B844
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