Refining the mutiple-forms approach to control: Toward a new generation of theory and Research.
Given these issues, it is necessary to refine the multiple-forms approach to parental control . To this end, we suggest conceptualizing parental control as only those kinds of parenting characterized by parents’ pressure, intrusiveness, and dominance. Thus, parental control involves attempts at forcing children to meet demands, solving problems for children , and taking a parental rather than child perspective . In contrast, parents can support children’s autonomy by encouraging them to take initiative, allowing them to solve problems on their own, and taking the child’s perspective . With such a conceptualization, parenting labeled psychological control and authoritarianism as well as other types of intrusive parenting —whether it be styles or practices—such as power assertive discipline would continue to fall under the rubric of control, whereas parenting labeled psychological autonomy and encouragement of independence would fall at the other end of the dimension under the rubric ...