SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.24 issue1Relationship between overall physical condition, motor coordination and perceived quality of life in Spanish adolescentsInvestigation on the capacity of the factors of the Clinical Dimensional Personality Inventory 2 for identifying people with substance dependence author indexsubject indexarticles search
Home Pagealphabetic serial listing  

Services on Demand

Journal

Article

Indicators

Related links

  • On index processCited by Google
  • Have no similar articlesSimilars in SciELO
  • On index processSimilars in Google

Share


Acta Colombiana de Psicología

Print version ISSN 0123-9155

Abstract

RODRIGUEZ-MENENDEZ, Carmen; INDA-CARO, Ma de las Mercedes; FERNANDEZ-GARCIA, Carmen Ma  and  MARTINEZ-GARCIA, Lindsay. Spanish validation of the Parental Psychological Control Scale and Parental Psychological Control-Disrespect Scale. Act.Colom.Psicol. [online]. 2021, vol.24, n.1, pp.107-120.  Epub June 21, 2021. ISSN 0123-9155.  https://doi.org/10.14718/acp.2021.24.1.10.

The construct "parental psychological control" has been used to refer to those parental behaviors that interfere with the children's thoughts and feelings. Examples of this type of behaviors would be inducing guilt or shame as well as the withdrawal of affection. The objective of this study was to validate and adapt the Spanish version of the Psychological Control Scale-Youth Self-Report (PCS-YSR) and the Psychological Control-Disrespect Scale (PCDS) and to analyze if the parental psychological control is defined as one dimension or two dimensions through manipulative and disrespectful behaviors towards adolescents. Also, the unique contribution of parental psychological control in predicting adolescent's self-concept was examined. In two samples of undergraduate university students (the first, N = 367, mean age = 19.8, women=62.7%, men=37.3%, and the second, N= 312, mean age=19.7, women=73.9%, men=26.1%), exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses confirmed the hypothesized factor structure of the PCS-YSR and the PCDS, for both paternal and maternal ratings. Convergent validity was confirmed by consistent associations between both measures of parental psychological control and other measures of parental autonomy support and parental psychological control. The multi-group analysis confirmed that parental psychological control had a negative influence on self-concept. The results indicated that both scales are useful instruments for assessing parental psychological control.

Keywords : psychometrics; reliability; cross-cultural; late adolescents; parental psychological control.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in English     · English ( pdf )