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    The relationship between parental control and prosocial behavior toward parents
    (2017-06) Aktaş, Büşra; Kumru, Asiye; Kumru, Asiye; Dost Gözkan, Ayfer; Harma, M.; Department of Psychology; Aktaş, Büşra
    Parental psychological control including negative discipline exercises such as humiliating, coercion, love withdrawal, and emotional manipulation has been negatively related to prosocial behavior in previous studies (Clark, Dahlen, & Nicholson, 2015; Kuppens, Grietens, Onghena, & Michiens, 2009). On the other hand, the relation between parental behavioral control including supervision, monitoring, and parental knowledge regarding whereabouts and emotional needs of children and prosocial behavior seems to be mixed. That is, in some studies this relation has been positive (Hong, Hwang, Tai, & Kuo, 2016; Kerr, Beck, Downs-Shattuck, Kattar, & Uriburu, 2003) while in another study there was no relation between behavioral control and prosocial behavior et al (Yoo et al., 2013). Furthermore, empirical investigations on both parental psychological and behavioral controls and prosocial behaviors are very scarce in non-Western populations. Thus, in the present study, the relations of prosocial behavior toward mothers and fathers with perceived maternal behavioral control and maternal and paternal psychological control were examined with Turkish school aged children from Bolu, Ankara, and Istanbul (mean age = 11.8, 182 girls and 173 boys). Also, the moderator role of gender on the relation between parental control and prosocial behavior was investigated. The findings revealed that there was a positive link between perceived maternal behavioral control and prosocial behaviors toward parents (both mothers and fathers), while the negative link between perceived paternal and maternal psychological control and prosocial behaviors toward mothers and fathers. Additionally, girls reported more maternal behavioral control and prosocial behavior toward mothers and fathers than boys while boys reported more maternal and paternal psychological control. Moreover, the results of hierarchical regression analyses showed that gender had no moderator role on the relations of prosocial behavior with parental behavioral control and psychological control.