Although most parental discipline research examines the effects of discipline in children and adolescents, recent research has demonstrated that emerging adults continue to receive parental discipline. Importantly, a newly validated instrument for assessing discipline specifically during emerging adulthood has been created. Scales from this instrument include maternal and paternal approval, disappointment, and abuse, and these scales were associated with other parenting behaviors and psychological outcomes during emerging adulthood. However, a person-centered approach has not been conducted with this instrument. Given that discipline occurs at an idiographic level and that group norms inform such behaviors, a person-centered approach would identify highly informative emerging adult profiles based on patterns of discipline they receive from their parents. Thus, the current study utilized latent profile analysis (LPA) of 1110 participants attending a Southern United States university to identify emerging adult discipline profiles. These groups were then associated with parental and emerging adult psychological problems to gain an understanding of how these factors relate to different patterns of discipline across gender. Results best supported four profiles labeled as approving, distant, disappointed, and abusive. These groups reported increasingly higher parental and personal psychological problems across approving, distant, disappointed, and abusive profiles. Gender moderated some of these effects. Implications and future directions are discussed.

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成年后的父母管教：以人为本的方法

尽管大多数父母管教研究考察了管教对儿童和青少年的影响，但最近的研究表明，新兴成年人继续接受父母管教。重要的是，已经创建了一种新验证的工具，专门用于评估新兴成年期的纪律。该工具的量表包括母亲和父亲的认可、失望和虐待，这些量表与成年后的其他养育行为和心理结果相关。但是，该仪器尚未采用以人为本的方法。鉴于纪律发生在具体层面，并且群体规范会影响此类行为，以人为本的方法将根据他们从父母那里得到的管教模式来识别信息量很大的新兴成人概况。因此，当前的研究利用了 1110 名参加美国南部大学的参与者的潜在概况分析 (LPA)，以确定新兴的成人学科概况。然后将这些群体与父母和新出现的成人心理问题联系起来，以了解这些因素如何与跨性别的不同纪律模式相关联。结果最好地支持了四个标记为赞同、疏远、失望和辱骂的个人资料。这些群体报告了越来越多的父母和个人心理问题，包括赞同的、疏远的、失望的和虐待的形象。性别缓和了其中一些影响。讨论了影响和未来的方向。