title: Parenting and adolescent well-being in two European countries.
abstract: The main and interactive effects of parental behavioral control and parental support on adolescent adjustment were examined with students ages 15-19 in Italy (N = 391, 59.1% male) and The Netherlands (N = 373, 45.3% male). In general, parental support was associated with better adjustment and parental control was associated with worse adjustment. However, parental control as well as age and sex moderated the effects of parental support on psychological discomfort and expectations of future success. Positive self-perceptions were less well predicted. Further, there were more moderated effects in the Dutch sample than in the Italian sample. Generalizability of the contributions of parenting behavior to adolescent adjustment outside of a North American context is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Developmental Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Torino, Italy. ciairano@psych.unito.it
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ciairano
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kliewer
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bonino
authors.forename: Harke Anne
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Bosma
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D009426:Netherlands; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept; D012917:Social Adjustment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires