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The Relationship between Maternal Overprotection, Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Problems, and Psychological Need Frustration: A Multi-Informant Study Using Response Surface Analysis

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Parents and adolescents may hold discrepant views about parents’ behaviors, which may be related to adolescent maladjustment. The goal of the present investigation was to examine associations between overprotective parenting and adolescents’ internalizing and externalizing problems and the frustration of their psychological needs (for autonomy, relatedness and competence), thereby considering both congruence and incongruence in adolescents’ and mothers’ reports of overprotective parenting. Our sample consisted of 402 mother-adolescent dyads (M adolescent age = 16.8 years, 63% female), who reported upon the mothers’ overprotective parenting. In addition, adolescents filled out questionnaires assessing their internalizing and externalizing problems and psychological need frustration. Data were analyzed using polynomial regressions with response surface analysis. Results showed evidence for a linear, additive relationship between adolescents’ and mothers’ reports of overprotective parenting, and adolescents’ internalizing and externalizing symptoms and relatedness and competence frustration. That is, higher scores in adolescents’ and mothers’ ratings of overprotective parenting were associated with more maladjustment and more need frustration. Moreover, results indicated that incongruence between adolescents’ and mothers’ reports related to more externalizing problems and more autonomy and relatedness frustration, and this was especially the case when adolescents perceived higher levels of overprotection than what was reported by mothers. These results underscore the importance of considering multiple perspectives when studying the dynamics involved in overprotective parenting.

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  1. The RSA coefficients are calculated on the basis of the unstandardized polynomial regression coefficients: a1 = b1 + b2; a2 = b3 + b4 + b5; a3 = b1  − b2; a4 = b3 − b4 + b5.

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S.V.P. conceived of the study, interpreted the data, helped in the analysis of the data, and drafted the manuscript; J.P.A. helped in the conception of the study, performed the statistical analyses, helped in the interpretation of the data and in drafting the manuscript; C.E.N. helped in the conception of the study, in the interpretation of the data and analyses, and in drafting the manuscript; E.K. coordinated the project, conceived of the study, participated in the design, coordinated the data collection, and helped in drafting the manuscript; B.S. helped in the coordination of the project and the conception and design of the study, in the interpretation of the data and in drafting the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Van Petegem, S., Antonietti, JP., Eira Nunes, C. et al. The Relationship between Maternal Overprotection, Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Problems, and Psychological Need Frustration: A Multi-Informant Study Using Response Surface Analysis. J Youth Adolescence 49, 162–177 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-019-01126-8

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