Parenting and Self-Control Across Early to Late Adolescence: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis

Jian Bin Li; Yayouk E. Willems; F. Marijn Stok; Maja Deković; Meike Bartels; Catrin Finkenauer

doi:10.1177/1745691619863046

Parenting and Self-Control Across Early to Late Adolescence: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis

Jian Bin Li^*, Yayouk E. Willems, F. Marijn Stok, Maja Deković, Meike Bartels, Catrin Finkenauer

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Self-control plays a significant role in positive youth development. Although numerous self-control challenges occur during adolescence, some adolescents control themselves better than others. Parenting is considered a critical factor that distinguishes adolescents with good self-control from those with poor self-control, but existing findings are inconsistent. This meta-analysis summarizes the overall relationship between parenting and self-control among adolescents aged 10 to 22 years. The analysis includes 191 articles reporting 1,540 effect sizes (N = 164,459). The results show that parenting is associated with adolescents’ self-control both concurrently (r =.204, p <.001) and longitudinally (r =.157, p <.001). Longitudinal studies also reveal that adolescents’ self-control influences subsequent parenting (r =.155, p <.001). Moderator analyses show that the effect sizes are largely invariant across cultures, ethnicities, age of adolescents, and parent and youth gender. Our results point to the importance of parenting in individual differences in adolescent self-control and vice versa.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	967-1005
Number of pages	39
Journal	Perspectives on Psychological Science
Volume	14
Issue number	6
Early online date	6 Sept 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691619863046
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2019

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8995-3304 Li Jian-Bin 1 2 Willems Yayouk E 3 4 5 Stok F. Marijn 5 Deković Maja 6 Bartels Meike 3 4 7 Finkenauer Catrin 5 1 Department of Early Childhood Education, The Education University of Hong Kong 2 Centre for Child and Family Science, The Education University of Hong Kong 3 Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 4 Amsterdam Public Health Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 5 Department of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Utrecht University 6 Department of Clinical Child and Family Studies, Utrecht University 7 Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Jian-Bin Li, Department of Early Childhood Education, The Education University of Hong Kong, 10 Lo Ping Rd., Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong E-mail: [email protected] Yayouk E. Willems, Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, van der Boechorststraat 7-9, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, the Netherlands E-mail: [email protected] 8 2019 1745691619863046 © The Author(s) 2019 2019 Association for Psychological Science Self-control plays a significant role in positive youth development. Although numerous self-control challenges occur during adolescence, some adolescents control themselves better than others. Parenting is considered a critical factor that distinguishes adolescents with good self-control from those with poor self-control, but existing findings are inconsistent. This meta-analysis summarizes the overall relationship between parenting and self-control among adolescents aged 10 to 22 years. The analysis includes 191 articles reporting 1,540 effect sizes ( N = 164,459). The results show that parenting is associated with adolescents’ self-control both concurrently ( r = .204, p < .001) and longitudinally ( r = .157, p < .001). Longitudinal studies also reveal that adolescents’ self-control influences subsequent parenting ( r = .155, p < .001). Moderator analyses show that the effect sizes are largely invariant across cultures, ethnicities, age of adolescents, and parent and youth gender. Our results point to the importance of parenting in individual differences in adolescent self-control and vice versa. parenting parent–child relationship self-control adolescence meta-analysis Amsterdam Public Health Personalized Medicine Travel Grant The MARIE Skłodowska-CURIE ACTIONS Innovative Training Network (ITN) “CAPICE” (Childhood and Adolescence Psychopathology: unravelling the complex etiology by a large Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Europe) H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016 721567-CAPICE education university of hong kong https://doi.org/10.13039/501100010410 NWO (Research Talent) 406-15-132 European Union Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) 602768 edited-state corrected-proof Action Editor Laura A. King served as action editor for this article. Author Contributions J.-B. Li and Y. E. Willems contributed equally to this manuscript and are co-first authors. All of the authors approved the final manuscript for submission. ORCID iD Jian-Bin Li https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8995-3304 Declaration of Conflicting Interests The author(s) declared that there were no conflicts of interest with respect to the authorship or the publication of this article. Funding J.-B. Li is supported by the Faculty of Education and Human Development’s Internationalization and Exchange Research Scheme of the Education University of Hong Kong. Y. Willems is supported by Dutch Research Council (NWO) Research Talent Grant 406-15-132 and by the Amsterdam Public Health personalized medicine travel grant. M. Bartels is financially supported by a Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam research chair position; the Aggression in Children: Unraveling Gene-Environment Interplay to Inform Treatment and Intervention Strategies project, which receives funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement 602768; and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ACTIONS Innovative Training Network CAPICE (Childhood and Adolescence Psychopathology: Unravelling the Complex Etiology by a Large Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Europe; H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016 721567-CAPICE). Supplemental Material Additional supporting information can be found at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/1745691619863046

Funders	Funder number
Aggression in Children
Amsterdam Public Health
Dutch Research Council
European Union Seventh Framework Program
FP7/2007
Faculty of Education and Human Development
Marie Skłodowska-Curie	H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016 721567-CAPICE
Seventh Framework Programme	602768
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek	406-15-132
Seventh Framework Programme
Hong Kong Institute of Educational Research, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Education University of Hong Kong

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meta-analysis
parenting
parent–child relationship
self-control

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