The Profiles of Parental Control and its Influence on Adolescents’ Adaptation: Based on Latent Transition Analysis

doi:10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2023.01.003

Abstract

Abstract:

Parental control refers to a relatively stable behavior pattern used by parents to control and manage their children in the process of parenting activities, which has an important and direct influence on the psychological development and social adaptation of children and adolescents. This study explored the profiles of parental control, transformational characteristics and its impact on adaptation among Chinese adolescents based on a longitudinal study and a person-centered approach. The main findings are as follows. First, the parental control of Chinese parents is heterogeneous with three profiles: low-medium control (i.e., low psychological control-medium behavior control, and so on), medium-medium control and high-high control. The proportion of parents in the medium-medium control group was the highest at the two time points, which were about 60 percent and 50 percent respectively. Second, the profiles of parental control change as time passes. From the first grade to the second grade of junior middle school, there were about 70 percent of parental control profiles remaining stable and around 30 percent mainly changing to adjacent profiles. If the profile of medium-medium control is not maintained in the first grade, it will be more likely to become high-high control. Third, the profiles of parental control have significant effects on adolescents’ adaptation (including subjective well-being, Internet addiction and parent-child conflict). Above all, this study lays a foundation for empirical research on the precise intervention of different profiles of parental control.

Key words: parental control, adolescents’ adaptation, latent profile analysis, latent transition analysis

Yan He, Keman Yuan, Mingming Zhang, Yufang Bian. The Profiles of Parental Control and its Influence on Adolescents’ Adaptation: Based on Latent Transition Analysis[J]. Journal of East China Normal University(Educational Sciences), 2023, 41(1): 25-39.

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时间点	模型	χ²	df	χ²/df	CFI	TLI	SRMR	RMSEA
T1	8因子	16168.05	2116	7.64	0.826	0.818	0.057	0.056
T1	8因子+方法因子	14022.86	2049	6.84	0.851	0.840	0.045	0.053
T2	8因子	18280.49	2116	8.64	0.813	0.805	0.062	0.060
T2	8因子+方法因子	15851.62	2049	7.74	0.840	0.828	0.048	0.057

	T1		T2
	M	SD	M	SD
内疚引导	3.17	0.91	3.27	0.97
爱的收回	2.61	1.14	2.65	1.20
权威专断	3.54	1.10	3.52	1.15
主动询问	3.45	0.90	3.46	0.91
行为约束	3.70	0.94	3.71	0.94
心理控制	3.08	0.89	3.14	0.96
行为控制	3.57	0.80	3.58	0.80

变量	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1内疚引导	1	0.73**	0.71**	0.31**	0.34**	0.96**	0.38**	?0.17**	0.22**	0.42**
2爱的收回	0.71**	1	0.56**	0.17**	0.21**	0.87**	0.22**	?0.31**	0.27**	0.49**
3权威专断	0.65**	0.45**	1	0.30**	0.31**	0.79**	0.35**	?0.14**	0.18**	0.33**
4主动询问	0.35**	0.19**	0.36**	1	0.50**	0.29**	0.86**	0.14**	?0.00	0.15**
5行为约束	0.38**	0.21**	0.36**	0.50**	1	0.32**	0.87**	0.11**	?0.03	0.15**
6心理控制总分	0.96**	0.85**	0.74**	0.34**	0.37**	1	0.36**	?0.23**	0.25**	0.47**
7行为控制总分	0.42**	0.24**	0.42**	0.86**	0.87**	0.41**	1	0.15**	?0.02	0.17**
8主观幸福感	?0.10**	?0.21**	?0.06**	0.13**	0.09**	?0.14**	0.13**	1	?0.30**	?0.27**
9 网络成瘾	0.15**	0.25**	0.08**	?0.04*	?0.10**	0.19**	?0.08**	?0.23**	1	0.42**
10亲子冲突	0.32**	0.44**	0.19**	0.08**	0.10**	0.38**	0.10**	?0.23**	0.31**	1

时间	Class	LL	AIC	BIC	aBIC	Entropy	类别概率
T1	1class	?14906.65	29833.30	29889.84	29858.07	—	—
	2class	?13831.08	27694.16	27784.63	27733.80	0.792	0.66/0.34
	3class	?13324.07	26692.14	26816.54	26746.64	0.844	0.17/0.60/0.23
	4class	?13119.93	26295.86	26454.19	26365.23	0.792	0.19/0.22/0.39/0.19
	5class	?12919.93	25907.86	26100.11	25992.09	0.814	0.07/0.13/0. 43/0.15/0.22
T2	1class	?15248.58	30517.15	30573.69	30541.92	—	—
	2class	?13974.90	27981.79	28072.26	28021.43	0.810	0.58/0.42
	3class	?13495.15	27034.30	27158.70	27088.80	0.821	0.22/0.50/0.28
	4class	?13348.92	26753.84	26912.16	26823.21	0.778	0.26/0.16/0.33/0.25
	5class	?13192.23	26452.45	26644.70	26536.68	0.782	0.16/0.27/0.19/0.15/0.22

时间	潜在类别 (百分比)	平均归属各类的概率
时间	潜在类别 (百分比)	类1	类2	类3
T1	类1 (17.2%)	0.920	0.080	0.000
	类2 (60.3%)	0.039	0.929	0.032
	类3 (22.5%)	0.000	0.056	0.944
T2	类1 (21.8%)	0.912	0.088	0.000
	类2 (49.7%)	0.049	0.911	0.040
	类3 (28.5%)	0.000	0.061	0.939