Control Parental y Problemas Emocionales y de Conducta en Adolescentes

the purpose of this research project was to determine whether gender made a difference with respect to the effects of psychological and behavioral parental control on the emotional and behavioral problems in male and female adolescents. a non-random sample of 587 mexico city public high school students with a mean age of 13.8 was selected, of which 46.8% were male and 53.2% female. the maternal and paternal control perception scale for adolescents and the adjusted version of the youth self-report were used. the overall results showed that both maternal and paternal psychological control had a greater influence than behavioral control on the presence of emotional and behavioral problems.