1. The Reciprocal Relations between Parental Psychological Control and Social Anxiety and the Mediating Role of Self-Concept Clarity Among Chinese Early Adolescents.
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Zhou, Jianhua, Zou, Fan, and Gong, Xue
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RISK assessment , *PARENTS , *CONTROL (Psychology) , *ELEMENTARY schools , *RESEARCH funding , *PARENT-child relationships , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *PARENTING , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *CHI-squared test , *CULTURAL values , *TEENAGERS' conduct of life , *LONGITUDINAL method , *SCHOOL children , *COMPARATIVE studies , *FACTOR analysis , *INTERPERSONAL relations , *SELF-perception , *SOCIAL anxiety , *CHILD behavior , *PSYCHOSOCIAL functioning , *ADOLESCENCE , *CHILDREN - Abstract
Although parental psychological control has been well-documented as a significant predictor of social anxiety among adolescents, few studies examine how changes in parental psychological control and adolescent social anxiety are reciprocally related at the within-person level, especially in Chinese culture. This longitudinal study examined reciprocal relations between parental psychological control and social anxiety, and the potential mediating role of self-concept clarity, by disentangling between- and within-person effects. A total of 4731 students (44.9% girls; Mage = 10.91 years, SD = 0.72) participated in a four-wave longitudinal study with 6-month intervals. Results from random intercept cross-lagged panel modeling indicated that parental psychological control directly predicted social anxiety, and vice versa. Parental psychological control indirectly predicted social anxiety via self-concept clarity, and social anxiety also indirectly predicted parental psychological control via self-concept clarity. These findings reveal a vicious cycle of mutual influence between parental psychological control and adolescent social anxiety in Chinese youth, and highlight the crucial role of self-concept clarity in the interplay between parenting and adolescent social functioning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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