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The Relationship Between Parental Control and Children’s Emotional and Academic Success in Adulthood
Full text linkCollege is an important time of transition for adolescents going into adulthood, experiencing life for the first time away from their parents. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the amount of parental restrictive control during adolescence and the level of subjective happiness, perceived wellness, and academic performance reported in college. Participants included 134 college students who completed an online survey that included the Subjective Happiness Scale, Academic Performance Scale, Perceived Wellness Survey, the Parental Restrictive Control Questionnaire for primary parent/guardian and secondary parent/guardian, and a variety of demographic questions. Results did not support any of the hypotheses: higher levels of parental restrictive control would predict high academic achievement, lower happiness, and lower perceived wellness. As parenting approaches continue to change from generation to generation, the results of this study add the new idea that parental restrictive control, when tested alone, does not impact a college student\u27s emotional or academic success in adulthood. These findings provide a new perspective on the pillar theory as this study considers solely parental restrictive control, unlike past research that used other variables such as parental warmth in addition to parental restrictive control. More research is needed on the difference between parental restrictive control and demandingness as used in the pillar theory
Dollars and Zen: A Randomized Control Trial of a Community-Partnered Financial Capability and Stress Management Digital Intervention among Low-Income Latino Adults
Full text linkLatino adults disproportionately experience financial stress, but no programs developed for Latinos comprehensively and successfully integrate financial capability and stress management approaches to address financial stress. Using a community-partnered approach, we enhanced a digital financial capability intervention with theoretically- and empirically-grounded stress management techniques. We tested whether this integrative intervention improved financial capability, self-efficacy, actions, and stress as well as sleep, a correlate of stress. A sample of 76 Latino adults (39 in the intervention group, 37 in the control group; mean age = 45, 76% female, 88% with household income below $59,999) completed the three-month randomized waitlist-control trial. Participants completed questionnaires regarding financial capability, self-efficacy, actions, stress, sleep, and usefulness of the intervention. Intent to treat difference-in-difference (DID) analyses controlling for individual characteristics demonstrated that those exposed to the intervention, in comparison to the control group, reported greater increases in financial capability and greater decreases in financial stress from baseline to immediate post-intervention, b = 0.89 (.42) and b = -0.48 (.20), ps \u3c .05. There were no significant differences in financial self-efficacy and sleep changes. Participants found the intervention useful and novel. An integrative digital financial capability and stress management intervention improved financial capability, actions related to financial decisions, and financial stress. Future research should involve longer term follow up to assess whether stress improvements later translate into improvements in sleep and biomarkers of stress and health. This intervention can then be used to improve financial behaviors and financial stress and health within the Latino community
