Relationship Between Helicopter Parenting and Psychological Wellbeing in College Students
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https://doi.org/10.55712/ijsri.v7i1.73Keywords:
Helicopter Parenting, Psychological wellbeing, over parenting, young emerging adultsAbstract
Several international studies suggest that helicopter parenting, a type of parenting with psychological control and excessive parental involvement, has a negative impact on emerging adults’ psychological wellbeing. Hence, this study aimed to determine whether Maldivian college students perceive over involvement by their parents and if this impacts the students’ psychological wellbeing negatively. Seventy-One college students, aged 18 to 25, completed two survey questionnaires: The Helicopter Parenting Scale (LeMoyne & Buchanan, 2011) and the Psychological Wellbeing Scale (Ryff, 2014), the findings of which showed a medium negative correlation between helicopter parenting and overall psychological wellbeing, and stronger negative correlations with environmental mastery and autonomy. Hence, future research needs to explore the impact of over parenting, such as difficulty attaining autonomy and self-efficacy in Maldivian young adults.
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