The Role of Parents in Emerging Adults’ Psychological Well‐Being: A Person‐Oriented Approach

Mendoza, María del Carmen García; Sánchez‐Queija, Inmaculada; Jiménez, Águeda Parra

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“…Although some parents may be perceived in a negative way when they exert high levels of control over their older children (García‐Mendoza, Sánchez‐Queija & Parra, ; Liga, Ingoglia, Liga et al , 2; Wagner & Abaied, ), in general, emerging adults report positive perceptions of their family relationships (Crocetti & Meeus, ; García‐Mendoza, Parra & Sánchez‐Queija, ; Milevsky, Thudium & Guldin, ), which are characterized by affection and a high degree of parental involvement (Duchesne, Ratelle, Larose & Guay, ; Gomez & McLaren, ).…”

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Emotional autonomy and adjustment among emerging adults: The moderating role of family relationships

García‐Mendoza

Jiménez

Sánchez‐Queija

et al. 2020

Scandinavian J Psychology

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Emerging adults build their personal maturity within the family context; however, few studies focus on the role of emotional autonomy during this stage. The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between emotional autonomy and adjustment during emerging adulthood, bearing in mind the possible moderating role of parental support in this relationship. Data were collected from 1,502 Spanish undergraduate students (903 women) aged between 18 and 29. Participants completed measures of emotional autonomy (EAS, Steinberg & Silverberg, 1986), family social support (MSPSS; Zimet, Dahlem, Zimet & Farley, 1988), psychological well‐being (PWBS; Ryff, Lee, Essex & Schmutte, 1995) and psychological distress (DASS‐21; Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995). The results indicate that emotional autonomy correlates negatively with family support and psychological well‐being and positively with psychological distress. However, only when young people perceive a family context with low social support is gaining emotional distance from their parents associated with an increase in their psychological well‐being. Our findings highlight the crucial role that the family environment plays in well‐being during young adulthood, and reveal that the effect of emotional distancing from parents on adjustment depends on the quality of the family climate. Future research should seek to gain greater insight into emotional autonomy during emerging adulthood, taking into account cross‐cultural diversity.

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Emotional autonomy and adjustment among emerging adults: The moderating role of family relationships

García‐Mendoza

Jiménez

Sánchez‐Queija

et al. 2020

Scandinavian J Psychology

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“…This study, therefore, confirms that, in addition to psychological control, behavioural control by families is also related to unhealthy romantic relationships during emerging adulthood. These results highlight, once again, the negative role played by parental control (particularly behavioural control, for which less evidence exists) during emerging adulthood [40, 41].…”

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“…Behavioural control, characterised by the establishment of limits and the supervision of children's behaviour [40], has been shown to be necessary and healthy during adolescence [34]. However, although few studies have focused on this particular issue, behavioural control seems to be a negative variable during emerging adulthood, since it hampers young people's development during this period [41, 42] and may also interfere with the establishment of healthy romantic relationships. Whatever the case, exploring the relationship between behavioural control during emerging adulthood and romantic attachment is particularly important due to the scarcity of extant research in this field.…”

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Why are undergraduate emerging adults anxious and avoidant in their romantic relationships? The role of family relationships

2019

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The exploration of and search for romantic relationships is one of the developmental tasks that characterise emerging adulthood, a new developmental phase halfway between adolescence and full adulthood. This study aims to explore, in a Mediterranean country, the existing relationships between the subjective perception of some parental behaviour and the anxiety and avoidance dimensions of attachment during emerging adulthood. To do so, 1,502 university students (903 women and 599 men) aged between 18 and 29 (M = 20.32 and SD = 2.13) completed a self-report questionnaire. The results revealed that perceived family support and perceived parental warmth were negatively associated with the avoidance and anxiety dimensions. In contrast, perceived parental control (both behavioural and psychological) was found to be positively associated with both attachment dimensions. Perceived behavioural control was also found to play a moderator role between perceived parental warmth and romantic attachment anxiety. Only in cases in which emerging adults of our sample perceived low levels of behavioural control was warmth found to be negatively associated with anxiety. The main conclusion of this work is the negative impact that parental control seems to have on romantic attachment during emerging adulthood. The results are discussed with a focus on the continuing importance of the family context in relation to the completion of developmental tasks, even during emerging adulthood.

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“…As children reach emerging adulthood, their relationship with their parents needs to change in order to adjust to the fact that although due to their socioeconomic situation they are still fairly dependent on their parents, they are nevertheless mature adults at many levels [28,29]. Secondly, it is important to take families into account because research has shown that this context continues to play a fundamental role in young peoples’ development, even during the third decade of their lives [66,67,68]. The present study aims to shed some light on family relations during this period among two samples of university students in Spain and Portugal by analyzing parenting styles and their implications for emerging adults’ psychological wellbeing and adjustment, with a special focus on sex differences.…”

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Perceived Parenting Styles and Adjustment during Emerging Adulthood: A Cross-National Perspective

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Sánchez‐Queija

Mendoza

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The aim of the present study is to determine whether the influence of parenting style on children’s wellbeing is sustained during emerging adulthood. This is a stage in which young people, despite feeling themselves to be adults, often remain in the family home and continue to be financially dependent on their parents. Moreover, since parents’ beliefs, attitudes and behaviors are constructed and interpreted within their cultural milieu, the study also aims to explore the situation in Spain (SP) and Portugal (PT). Those two Southern Europe countries are representative of what is known as the “family welfare regime”, in which the family acts as the main provider of care and security not only during childhood, but also during emerging adulthood. Thus, the present study examines, from a cross-cultural perspective, the relationship between perceived parenting styles and psychological adjustment among a sample of 1047 emerging adults from Spain and Portugal. The results reveal that the most beneficial styles during this stage are the authoritative and permissive ones, with the authoritarian style being more closely related to psychological distress. The study highlights intercultural similarities and the positive role played by more symmetrical relationships in the adjustment of emerging adults in both countries.

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The Role of Parents in Emerging Adults’ Psychological Well‐Being: A Person‐Oriented Approach

Cited by 44 publications

References 75 publications

Emotional autonomy and adjustment among emerging adults: The moderating role of family relationships

Emotional autonomy and adjustment among emerging adults: The moderating role of family relationships

Why are undergraduate emerging adults anxious and avoidant in their romantic relationships? The role of family relationships

Perceived Parenting Styles and Adjustment during Emerging Adulthood: A Cross-National Perspective

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