Psychological Development and Education ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (5): 635-644.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2023.05.04

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Reciprocal Relations between Parental Psychological Control and Children's School Adjustment: A Cross-lagged Analysis

REN Liwen1, MA Yuanchi1, ZHANG Qingyao1, ZHANG Lingling2, XU Fuzhen1   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358;
    2. China National Children's Center, Beijing 100035
  • Published:2023-09-11
  • Supported by:
    The project was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2019YFC1905301);National Natural Science Foundation of China (22078115,21776108,21690083,22008078).

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Abstract: The present study used a three-wave cross-lagged analysis to explore the reciprocal relations between paternal/maternal psychological control and children's school adjustment as well as gender difference in these reciprocal relations. A total of 503 children aged 10~12 years old (288 boys and 215 girls) completed the Psychological Control Subscale of the Parental Control Scale, and children's class teachers completed the Chinese Version of Teacher-child Rating Scale. The results showed that: (1) levels of parental psychological control declined with children's age, while children's school adjustment increased. Boys reported higher levels of paternal psychological control and girls reported better school adjustment. And both boys and girls reported higher levels of psychological control of mothers than that of fathers; (2) both paternal and maternal psychological control were significantly and negatively correlated with children's school adjustment simultaneously and successively; and (3) maternal psychological control at T1 significantly negatively predicted children's school adjustment at T2, at the same time, children's school adjustment at T1 also significantly negatively predicted maternal psychological control at T2, which indicated a bidirectional pattern. In contrast, children's school adjustment at T1 significantly negatively predicted paternal psychological control at T2, which in turn negatively predicted children's school adjustment at T3, as shown in a circulation pattern. These reciprocal relations between paternal/maternal psychological control and children's school adjustment did not differ by children's gender.

Key words: psychological control, children, school adjustment, cross-lagged analysis

CLC Number: 

  • B844
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