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Saturday, 12:10 PM - 1:40 PM

Perceptions, Determinants, and Functions of Overparenting Across Timescales and Reporters: Insights from Global Perspectives

Overparenting consists of developmentally inappropriate and excessive forms of parental involvement and is associated with poorer parent and youth adjustment. However, little is known about the directionality of these links, as well as the role of individual differences in perceived overparenting. The papers in this international collection incorporate parent- and adolescent-reports and use diverse methods to examine predictors, outcomes, or perceptions of overparenting across multiple timescales.
Paper 1 incorporates two longitudinal datasets with Flemish adolescent, mother, and father reports. Using latent change models, they demonstrate that parental neuroticism is related to mothers’ and fathers’ overparenting, and that these associations are amplified by youth educational transitions and fathers’ perceived environmental threats.
Paper 2 examines Chinese mother and mid-adolescent daily-diary reports of parenting across 21 days. Using MSEM, they demonstrate that increased maternal worry is associated with more co-occurring maternal privacy invasion, which in turn predicts adolescent emotion regulation difficulties.
Paper 3 examines discrepancies in Chinese parent and mid-adolescent reports of overparenting across a 12-week daily diary study. Using multilevel RSA, they demonstrate that parent-adolescent agreement and discordance about weekly variation in overparenting is associated with variation in youth and parent positive and negative affect.
Paper 4 uses hypothetical vignettes to examine factors impacting U.S. mothers’ and adolescents’ perceptions of overparenting. ANOVA results demonstrate that family members’ identification of parenting practices as “helicopter parenting” and their acceptance of such behaviors depend on the child’s age, the type of overparenting, the domain of the situation, and adolescents’ prior failure.

Paper #1
Title	From Neuroticism to Overprotection: How Transitions to Higher Education and Perceived Threat Activate Parental Neuroticism
Presenting author	Nele Flamant, Department of developmental, personality and social psychology, Ghent University, Belgium

Paper #2
Title	From Daily Maternal Worry to Adolescents’ Emotion Regulation: The Mediating Role of Maternal Privacy Invasion
Presenting author	Yueqi Wang, Department of Educational Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Paper #3
Title	Adolescent-parent perception congruence and discrepancy of overparenting and its relation to well-being: A diary study
Presenting author	Yue Wang, Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Canada

Paper #4
Title	The Perception Puzzle: Factors Influencing Views on Overparenting Among Adolescents and Mothers
Presenting author	Wendy M. Rote, Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, United States

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Session chair
Dr. Wendy M. Rote, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, United States

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