On the Influence of Parental Psychological Control on Adolescents’ Internalized Problem Behavior

Abstract

Adolescents’ internalized problem behavior refers to a common phenomenon that individuals associate with their own immature and inappropriate cognitions, emotions or behaviors in social situations, and this internalized problem behavior may be either a kind of bad cognitive and emotional experience of their own, or it may also be caused by the social situation they are in in their family life, such as bad relationship with parents and emotional deficits in their family life, and so on. Whereas there is a link between adolescents’ internalized problem behaviors and parental psychological control, this study attempts to examine the effects of parental psychological control on adolescents’ internalized problem behaviors in order to deepen our understanding of this important issue. It was found that: there is a positive correlation between parental psychological control and adolescents’ internalized problematic behaviors; parental psychological control causes adolescents to have bad emotions, which affects their normal learning; parental psychological control increases adolescents’ conflictiveness, which in turn causes their problematic behaviors; and there is an interaction between parental psychological control and adolescents’ internalized problematic behaviors.