Helicopter Parenting and Emerging Adult Self-Efficacy: Implications for Mental and Physical Health

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• 作者：Kayla Reed ; James M. Duncan ; Mallory Lucier-Greer…
• 关键词：Helicopter parenting ; Autonomy support ; Emerging adult ; Self ; determination ; Self ; efficacy
• 刊名：Journal of Child and Family Studies
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：25
• 期：10
• 页码：3136-3149
• 全文大小：577 KB
• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Psychology
  Child and School Psychology
  Social Sciences
  Sociology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-2843
• 卷排序：25

文摘

Helicopter parenting has become an increasing concern among practitioners, college administrators, and professors. Further, some research has indicated that this form of parenting may have a deleterious effect on emerging adult college students’ mental health. This study examines the factor structure of the Helicopter Parenting Behaviors measure, a recent scale developed to examine intrusive and supportive parenting behaviors, by using confirmatory factor analysis. We utilized a self-determination theoretical framework to replicate and expand current research regarding the impact of helicopter parenting and autonomy supportive parenting on emerging adult mental and physical well-being. Further, we examined self-efficacy as a mechanism for helicopter parenting and autonomy supportive parenting to impact well-being, using structural equation modeling with a sample of 461 emerging adult college students from a large southeastern, United States university. The two-factor structure of the Helicopter Parenting Behaviors measure was confirmed, indicating helicopter parenting and autonomy supportive parenting are two unique, but related, constructs. Both autonomy supportive parenting and helicopter parenting were found to have indirect effects on anxiety, depression, life satisfaction, and physical health through self-efficacy. Results also indicated autonomy supportive parenting was directly related to life satisfaction and physical health when accounting for self-efficacy, whereas helicopter parenting was not directly related to well-being. This study adds to the extant literature by its’ application of a family-level lens to the self-determination theory, its’ advancement of parenting behaviors measurement, and its’ exploration of the continued influence of parenting during emerging adulthood.