Associations Between Parental Psychological Control and Autonomy Support, and Psychological Outcomes in Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Need Satisfaction and Need Frustration

Child Indicators Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1059-1076

  Costa, Sebastiano ^a   Cuzzocrea, Francesca ^a   Gugliandolo, Maria C ^a   Larcan, Rosalba ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autonomy support; Need frustration; Need satisfaction; Psychological control; Self determination theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995758199     PISSN: 1874897X     EISSN: 18748988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12187-015-9353-z     Document Type: Article

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