title: Parental control, trait anxiety, and satisfaction with life in college students.
abstract: Research on developmental psychopathology has highlighted the role of parental behavior in subsequent development of pathology in children and adolescents. Although parental psychological control has been an area of interest to researchers, the connection between psychological control and anxiety has not been well established. We administered measures of perceived parental control and acceptance (separate forms for mother and father), trait anxiety, and satisfaction with life to 202 undergraduate students. Analysis indicated that perception of parents (both mother and father) as psychologically controlling was significantly positively correlated with trait anxiety and significantly negatively correlated with satisfaction with life. This held even after the effects of psychological control by the other parent were statistically eliminated.
authors.affiliation: Oregon State Hospital, USA.
authors.forename: F L
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Seibel
authors.forename: W B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies