Wang Yue, Boele Savannah, Bülow Anne, Keijsers Loes, Hawk Skyler T
Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
J Youth Adolesc. 2025 Mar 18. doi: 10.1007/s10964-025-02164-1.
Parenting processes occur within families and unfold over time. According to Self-Determination Theory (SDT), helicopter parenting can threaten youth's psychological need satisfaction and undermine well-being. This study represents the first investigation of these theorized within-family, time-lagged processes. The research followed 350 late adolescents in Hong Kong (M = 18.2, SD = 1.09, 39.7% male, 60.3% female, 98.9% Chinese) for an academic year, collecting 16 bi-weekly reports of maternal helicopter parenting, youth affective well-being, and youth psychological need satisfaction. Preregistered Dynamic Structural Equation Models showed that, within families, helicopter parenting predicted decreased autonomy and relatedness (but not competence) satisfaction, which subsequently predicted decreased positive affect and increased negative affect. Parenting effects were time-dependent, exhibiting differences in valence and statistical significance between concurrent and time-lagged associations. This meso-longitudinal study highlights the applicability of SDT to parenting contexts and underscores the significance of considering the timeframe in understanding parenting processes.
养育过程发生在家庭内部，并随着时间的推移而展开。根据自我决定理论（SDT），“直升机式养育”会威胁到青少年心理需求的满足，并损害幸福感。本研究首次对这些理论上的家庭内部、时间滞后过程进行了调查。该研究对香港的350名青少年晚期学生（平均年龄M = 18.2，标准差SD = 1.09；男性占39.7%，女性占60.3%，98.9%为华裔）进行了一学年的跟踪，每两周收集一次关于母亲“直升机式养育”、青少年情感幸福感和青少年心理需求满足情况的报告。预先注册的动态结构方程模型表明，在家庭内部，“直升机式养育”预示着自主性和关联性（但不包括能力）满足感的下降，这随后预示着积极情绪的减少和消极情绪的增加。养育效果具有时间依赖性，在同时期和时间滞后的关联之间，在效价和统计显著性上存在差异。这项中观纵向研究突出了自我决定理论在养育情境中的适用性，并强调了在理解养育过程时考虑时间框架的重要性。
