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Parental Psychological Control and Relational Aggression in Adolescents: Mediation Effects of Family Triangulation and Negative Approval-based Self-appraisals

  • THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
  • 2015, 28(4), pp.181-203
  • Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

Han na 1 Seung-yeon Lee 1

1이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

The present study examined how family triangulation and negative approval-based self-appraisals mediate the relationship between parental psychological control and relational aggression among adolescents. Participants were 406 adolescents aged 12 to 15 (male: 222, female: 184) in Seoul, Korea. Self-report data was analyzed using structural equation modeling. Results indicated that psychological control enacted by same-sex parents directly increased adolescents’ relational aggression. In contrast, psychological control from opposite-sex parents indirectly affected adolescents’ relational aggression. In particular, the path between maternal psychological control and male adolescent relational aggression was mediated by family triangulation, which was the only significant mediation path in the present study. Based on these results, we discuss the importance of contextual intervention for modifying relational dysfunction within the family so as to reduce adolescent relational aggression.

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