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Soenens, Bart; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Lens, Willy; Luyckx, Koen; Goossens, Luc; Beyers, Wim; Ryan, Richard M. – Developmental Psychology, 2007
In current research on parenting, 2 ways of conceptualizing perceived parental autonomy support can be distinguished. Parental autonomy support can be defined in terms of promotion of independence (PI) or in terms of promotion of volitional functioning (PVF). This study aimed to establish the empirical distinctiveness of both conceptualizations…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Structural Equation Models, Personal Autonomy, Parent Child Relationship
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Capaldi, Deborah M.; Clark, Sara – Developmental Psychology, 1998
For boys at risk for delinquency, assessed their parents' dyadic aggression and unskilled parenting beginning when the boys were in grade four and assessed the boys' aggression to a female partner in young adulthood. Found a relation between the parents' poor parenting practices and the boys' aggression to a partner, mediated by the boys'…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, At Risk Persons
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Tolan, Patrick H.; Gorman-Smith, Deborah; Henry, David B. – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Tested a developmental-ecological model of violence using longitudinal data from poor, urban African American and Latino adolescent boys and caregivers. Found that community structural characteristics significantly predicted neighborhood social processes. Parenting practices partially mediated relationship between neighborhood social processes and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Black Youth, Hispanic American Students