Annotated Bibliography

Urvashi #300196043

Research Topic:

Parental Issues

Citation:

American Psychological Association

In-text Citation:

Chen-Gaddini et al., 2020

Reference:

Chen-Gaddini, M., Liu, J., & Nucci, L. (2020). “It’s My Own Business!”: Parental control

over personal issues in the context of everyday adolescent–parent conflicts and

internalizing disorders among urban chinese adolescents. Developmental

Psychology, 56(9), 1775–1786. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001053

Annotation:

According to research, adolescents and their parents differ conceptually in their views about

the origin of conflict as they transition into adolescence. Adolescent-parent interactions are

significantly altered as a result of these transitions. This peer reviewed article by Min Chen-

Gaddini, Jianjin Liu & Larry Nucci describes the harmful effect of parental

pressure.
Two-thirds of urban Chinese parent-adolescent confrontations, according to blog data, were

about regulating teenage everyday activities and topics that directly impacted adolescent

personal choice. Adolescents perceive the majority of the disputes as personal matters. Those

who felt parental control over their difficulties had much more everyday confrontations with

their parents. Furthermore, there was a link between reported genuine regular interaction and

adolescent internal disorders: The higher the adolescents' scores on the BSI subscale for

depression, the more intense conflicts, they were exposed to.

The limited method of questionnaires in previous studies makes it unclear how actual

parent-child interactions play out in adolescents' perception of parental control. This

previous research did not address whether the adolescents' responses on the

questionnaires were the same as the experiences they had on a daily basis. Internal

illnesses such as anxiety, somatization, interpersonal, sensitivity were the result of parental

control over personal matters, as well as acts that overlapped personal with conventional and

prudential factors. Adolescents perceived the majority of these issues as personal matters.

Those who felt their troubles were within parental control had a lot more conflicts with their

parents daily. Furthermore, there was a correlation between reported genuine daily

confrontations and adolescent internal disorders

Most importantly, the observations from this survey of urban Chinese adolescents explain the

fundamental claim that authority over a zone of personal power is a common psychological

necessity, and that regulations on the establishment of a personal domain, as a result, are

harmful to adolescent mental wellbeing.

From my study, I conclude that parents should give a decent amount of liberty to their

children. They should not always try to control them as it aggravates internal illnesses. They

should provide their children with warmth and friendliness instead of dominance. This source
can help us do well with this assignment as it helps us to understand and analyse the parental

pressure put on the youth.