Parental Autonomy Support, Parental Psychological Control and Chinese University Students’ Behavior Regulation: The Mediating Role of Basic Psychological Needs
The present research examined relationships between parental autonomy support, parental psychological control, and Chinese emerging adults’ autonomous regulation in their university studies as well as dysregulation in social media engagement. A total of 287 (102 female and 185 male) Chinese universi...
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| description | The present research examined relationships between parental autonomy support, parental psychological control, and Chinese emerging adults’ autonomous regulation in their university studies as well as dysregulation in social media engagement. A total of 287 (102 female and 185 male) Chinese university students reported on their perceived parenting styles, psychological needs, and behavior regulation. Results showed that basic psychological need satisfaction was positively associated with parental autonomy support and autonomous regulation of learning; need frustration was positively correlated with parental psychological control and dysregulation in social media engagement. More importantly, psychological need frustration was a mediator of the relation between parental psychological control and dysregulation in social media engagement. Our findings suggest that students living in an autonomy-supportive familial environment tend to have satisfied psychological needs as well as autonomous learning behavior. Impairment of psychological needs could be one of the mechanisms through which psychologically controlling parenting was linked to dysregulation of social media use in Chinese culture. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5dfe2defd7044a85ba9ad6a2c06f1d5a2022-12-21T17:22:34ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-02-011210.3389/fpsyg.2021.735570735570Parental Autonomy Support, Parental Psychological Control and Chinese University Students’ Behavior Regulation: The Mediating Role of Basic Psychological NeedsSongqin Wei0Timothy Teo1Anabela Malpique2Adi Lausen3Adi Lausen4Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester, United KingdomDepartment of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ChinaSchool of Education, Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, AustraliaDepartment of Clinical Neuropsychology, Bamberg Hospital, Bamberg, GermanyDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, United KingdomThe present research examined relationships between parental autonomy support, parental psychological control, and Chinese emerging adults’ autonomous regulation in their university studies as well as dysregulation in social media engagement. A total of 287 (102 female and 185 male) Chinese university students reported on their perceived parenting styles, psychological needs, and behavior regulation. Results showed that basic psychological need satisfaction was positively associated with parental autonomy support and autonomous regulation of learning; need frustration was positively correlated with parental psychological control and dysregulation in social media engagement. More importantly, psychological need frustration was a mediator of the relation between parental psychological control and dysregulation in social media engagement. Our findings suggest that students living in an autonomy-supportive familial environment tend to have satisfied psychological needs as well as autonomous learning behavior. Impairment of psychological needs could be one of the mechanisms through which psychologically controlling parenting was linked to dysregulation of social media use in Chinese culture.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.735570/fullparental autonomy supportparental psychological controlbasic psychological need satisfactionbasic psychological need frustrationself-determination theory |
| spellingShingle | Songqin Wei Timothy Teo Anabela Malpique Adi Lausen Adi Lausen Parental Autonomy Support, Parental Psychological Control and Chinese University Students’ Behavior Regulation: The Mediating Role of Basic Psychological Needs Frontiers in Psychology parental autonomy support parental psychological control basic psychological need satisfaction basic psychological need frustration self-determination theory |
| title | Parental Autonomy Support, Parental Psychological Control and Chinese University Students’ Behavior Regulation: The Mediating Role of Basic Psychological Needs |
| title_full | Parental Autonomy Support, Parental Psychological Control and Chinese University Students’ Behavior Regulation: The Mediating Role of Basic Psychological Needs |
| title_fullStr | Parental Autonomy Support, Parental Psychological Control and Chinese University Students’ Behavior Regulation: The Mediating Role of Basic Psychological Needs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Parental Autonomy Support, Parental Psychological Control and Chinese University Students’ Behavior Regulation: The Mediating Role of Basic Psychological Needs |
| title_short | Parental Autonomy Support, Parental Psychological Control and Chinese University Students’ Behavior Regulation: The Mediating Role of Basic Psychological Needs |
| title_sort | parental autonomy support parental psychological control and chinese university students behavior regulation the mediating role of basic psychological needs |
| topic | parental autonomy support parental psychological control basic psychological need satisfaction basic psychological need frustration self-determination theory |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.735570/full |
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