Meanings of psychological control in English

Parenting strategies involving psychological control are associated with increased adjustment problems in children.

Parents' psychological control was uniquely associated with adolescents' friendship competence.

We examine cultural differences in maternal psychological control and its associations with children's cortisol.

The original intention of a panopticon had been to enforce a psychological control over the prisoners.

Across both cultures, psychological control was significantly associated with increased cortisol levels as indexed by AUCg.

However, no research has examined the extent to which culture and psychological control predict children's stress physiology.

PMID: 27146549 However, no research has examined the extent to which culture and psychological control predict children's stress physiology.

Mothers reported on psychological control.

Finally, mediation analyses demonstrated that psychological control fully explained cultural differences in children's cortisol stress response as indexed by AUCg.

But as deep as the connection between Jennifer and I became, I still couldn't shake loose Jack's psychological control over me.

Results indicate that Chinese mothers reported higher levels of psychological control and Chinese children had higher levels of AUCg than their American counterparts.