Helicopter Parenting and Young Adults’ Well-Being: A Comparison Between United States and Finland

Cui, Ming; Janhonen-Abruquah, Hille; Darling, Carol A.; Chavez, Fiorella L. Carlos; Palojoki, Päivi

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“…Helicopter parenting and anxiety: 10 studies examined the relationship between helicopter parenting and anxiety. Helicopter parenting was found to have a direct relationship with anxiety in 5 of the studies (Kouros et al, 2017 ; Luebbe et al, 2018 ; Cui et al, 2019 ; Hong and Cui, 2019 ; Schiffrin et al, 2019 ). However, in the remaining 5 studies there was no direct relationship between helicopter parenting and anxiety (Segrin et al, 2013 ; Schiffrin et al, 2014 ; Reed et al, 2016 ; Darlow et al, 2017 ; Wenze et al, 2019 ).…”

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“…Helicopter parenting and depression: Nine of 11 studies investigating the relationship between helicopter parenting and depression, found an effect (Schiffrin et al, 2014 , 2019 ; Darlow et al, 2017 ; Luebbe et al, 2018 ; Reilly and Semkovska, 2018 ; Cui et al, 2019 ; Hong and Cui, 2019 ; Moilanen and Lynn Manuel, 2019 ; Turner et al, 2020 ), whilst 2 did not (Reed et al, 2016 ; Wenze et al, 2019 ).…”

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A Systematic Review of “Helicopter Parenting” and Its Relationship With Anxiety and Depression

Vigdal

Brønnick

2022

Front. Psychol.

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BackgroundEmerging evidence suggests that overprotective and controlling parenting, often referred to as “helicopter parenting” may have negative implications on the child's mental health such as anxiety and depression. However, no systematic review on the topic exists.ObjectiveConducting a systematic review to identify all studies where the relationship between helicopter parenting and symptoms of anxiety and/or depression have been investigated.MethodA systematic literature search conducted the 3rd of November 2021 yielded 38 eligible studies. Since helicopter parenting is a fairly new construct, this review considered parental control and overprotective parenting to be dimensions of helicopter parenting and thus, eligible for the study. Study quality was assessed in accordance with Campbells Validity Typology.ResultsThe majority of the studies included in this review found a direct relationship between helicopter parenting and symptoms of anxiety and depression. However, validity problems undermine these findings with regarding to assessing the causal relationship between helicopter parenting and these symptoms. There were no longitudinal studies of sufficient quality to determine if helicopter parenting precedes the outcome of anxiety and depression.ConclusionEven though the majority of the studies included in this systematic review found a relationship between helicopter parenting and anxiety and depression, the evidence for this relationship is insufficient and must be investigated further. Findings suggest that it is important to include both maternal and paternal parenting style in future studies as they could affect the outcome of anxiety and depression differently.Systematic Review RegistrationPROSPERO 2020 CRD42020167465, https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=167465.

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A Systematic Review of “Helicopter Parenting” and Its Relationship With Anxiety and Depression

Vigdal

Brønnick

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…Future studies may administer the OP-SF in culturally diverse samples to further examine the psychometric properties of the scale. Second and relatedly, given that overparenting is rapidly becoming a global research topic (e.g., Cui, Janhonen-Abruquah, et al, 2019), measurement invariance of the scale should be examined across parents from different cultures to ensure that the items function comparably well in different cultures. Third, replication is crucial for short form development (e.g., Smith et al, 2000).…”

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“…By restricting the development of autonomy and fulfillment of other psychological needs (Schiffrin et al, 2014), overparenting is thought to contribute to an extensive range of deleterious outcomes in emerging adulthood. These include, for example, poor coping skills (Odenweller et al, 2014), entitlement and narcissism (e.g., Segrin et al, 2012), depression and anxiety (e.g., Cui, Janhonen-Abruquah, et al, 2019; Schiffrin et al, 2014), substance use (Cui, Allen, et al, 2019), maladaptive academic motivations (Burke et al, 2018), and insecure attachment (Jiao & Segrin, 2021a).…”

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The Development and Validation of the Overparenting Scale – Short Form

Jiao

Segrin

2021

Emerging Adulthood

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Rapidly growing evidence has shown the negative consequences of overparenting among offspring during emerging adulthood. Notwithstanding the proliferation of self-report measures that assess overparenting from the offspring’s perspective, much less frequently overparenting is assessed from the parents’ vantage point that might provide a more holistic and unfiltered depiction of their overparenting practices. To provide a brief and valid measure of overparenting from the parents’ perspective, the present study relied on four samples ( n = 1722) to develop and two additional samples ( n = 658) to cross-validate the 12-item Overparenting Scale – Short Form (OP-SF). The results showed that the OP-SF maintained the four dimensions of overparenting that are captured by the long form and had good internal consistency and convergent validity that are comparable to the long form. Overall, the OP-SF is a promising tool for assessing overparenting as an overall construct from a parent’s perspective.

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“…As mentioned previously, helicopter parenting describes a parent's overattentive and overinvolved caring practices (Peluchette et al, 2013). The overattentive and overinvolved caring style can further cause several developmental issues, such as a reduced sense of autonomy and competence (Schiffrin et al, 2019), feelings of academic burnout (Love et al, 2020) and decreased well-being (Cui et al, 2019b). Much like helicopter parents, employees engaging in helicopter helping neglect using their help to enable others to learn, grow and develop regardless of whether help is solicited.…”

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Helicopter helping in the organization: its conceptualization, key characteristics and possible antecedents and consequences

Chou

Barron

Ramser

2022

IJOTB

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PurposeSince its inception, helping behavior has been viewed as a cooperative and affiliative behavior with prudent employee involvement. The paradox of employee involvement, however, implies that helping behavior can be intrusive and obstructive. The primary purpose of this article is to conceptualize helicopter helping as an intrusive and obstructive type of discretionary workplace behavior. In addition, the authors discuss possible antecedents and consequences of helicopter helping.Design/methodology/approachTo conceptualize helicopter helping, the authors utilized the ABI/INFORM Global, Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete, PsycARTICLES and JSTOR Archive Collection databases focusing on the helping behavior and helicopter parenting research. In particular, the authors applied the hovering nature of helicopter parenting to the conceptualization of helicopter helping exhibited by an employee in the organization. Additionally, the authors discuss antecedents and consequences of helicopter helping by integrating the bright and dark side of helping behavior research.FindingsThe authors conceptualize helicopter helping as an employee's excessive involvement in and interference with coworkers' task environment. Based upon the conceptualization of helicopter helping, the authors further propose that the need for achievement, Type-A personality, group rewards, high-performance group norms, a hierarchy organizational culture and strong social ties are possible antecedents of helicopter helping. Furthermore, the authors suggest that helicopter helping can result in reduced organization-based self-esteem, general self-efficacy, group creativity and innovation, quality of social-exchange relationships, learning and development and increased organizational vulnerability.Originality/valueThis article is one of the few studies exploring helping behavior from an intrusive and invasive perspective. Theoretically, the authors advance the dark side of helping behavior literature. Drawing upon the propositions, the authors offer some managerial recommendations that help managers mitigate the intrusive and obstructive type of helping in the organization.

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Helicopter Parenting and Young Adults’ Well-Being: A Comparison Between United States and Finland

Cited by 37 publications

References 31 publications

A Systematic Review of “Helicopter Parenting” and Its Relationship With Anxiety and Depression

A Systematic Review of “Helicopter Parenting” and Its Relationship With Anxiety and Depression

The Development and Validation of the Overparenting Scale – Short Form

Helicopter helping in the organization: its conceptualization, key characteristics and possible antecedents and consequences

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