Although one goal of the use of autonomy restricting parenting behavior is to keep teens psychologically dependent on the parent, research has yet to examine whether such behavior actually predicts later parental dependency. Thus, the present longitudinal, multi-method study investigates at which points across adolescence this behavior predicts parental dependency in emerging adulthood, and whether this association differs based on which parent uses psychological control within a non-clinical and racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically diverse sample. Teens’ (N = 184) parents completed measures of perceived parental psychological control exhibited toward their teens during early (age 13) and late adolescence (age 18), as well as their teens’ parental dependency and functional independence during emerging adulthood (age 22). Additionally, interactions between teens and their parents during early and late adolescence were observed and coded to measure autonomy and relatedness restriction. Results indicated that autonomy restricting parenting behaviors were more predictive of parental dependence when used in early adolescence as compared to late adolescence, and revealed several cross-parent effects. Developmental implications for understanding parent-child relationships are discussed.

尽管使用自主权限制养育行为的一个目标是让青少年在心理上依赖父母，但研究尚未检验这种行为是否真的预示着日后对父母的依赖。因此，目前的纵向、多方法研究调查了这种行为在青春期的哪些时间点预示着成年后的父母依赖，以及这种关联是否因父母在非临床和种族、民族和社会经济多样性中使用心理控制而有所不同样本。青少年（N= 184) 父母完成了对青少年早期（13 岁）和青春期后期（18 岁）表现出的父母心理控制的感知测量，以及青少年在成年初期（22 岁）对父母的依赖性和功能独立性的测量。此外，还观察了青春期早期和晚期青少年与其父母之间的互动，并对其进行了编码，以衡量自主性和相关性限制。结果表明，与青春期后期相比，在青春期早期使用自主限制养育行为更能预测父母依赖性，并揭示了几种跨父母效应。讨论了理解亲子关系的发展意义。