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Developing and validating a multidimensional Chinese Parental Psychological Control Scale

Xiaoqin Zhu; Diya Dou; Yangu Pan

Originally published 2023-03-22 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1116625 ↗

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Which behaviours can a child report when a survey asks about psychological control?

This article examines how a measure of psychological control distinguishes different parental behaviours. It offers a point of comparison for parents weighing useful structure against pressure that can crowd out a young person’s own judgement.

Who was studied?

Chinese adolescents involved in development and testing of a parenting questionnaire.

Age / stage: Adolescence

Read with three questions

  1. What does the article establish about how a measure of psychological control distinguishes different parental behaviours?
  2. Which items capture the construct, and which aspects of daily life might they miss?
  3. How closely does the population described here match the family or setting you have in mind? The population to compare is chinese adolescents involved in development and testing of a parenting questionnaire.

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Evidence on a questionnaire concerns its measurement properties in the sampled group. It does not show that changing a score will change a child’s later outcomes.

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Xiaoqin Zhu; Diya Dou; Yangu Pan (2023). Developing and validating a multidimensional Chinese Parental Psychological Control Scale Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1116625

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