Previous research has predominantly relied on single-informant reports to establish the association between parental control and children’s anxiety. However, there remains ambiguity regarding the extent to which discrepancies in parent-child reports of parental control are related to children anxiety. This study examined parent-child perceived discrepancies in parental control and their association with children’s anxiety, along with the moderated effect of parent-child closeness through cross-sectional and prospective analysis. The sample consisted of 790 children (M_age = 11.34, SD = 6.73, 45.60% for girls), with 741 father-child dyads and 760 mother-child dyads included. Data were analyzed using polynomial regressions with response surface analysis. The results indicated that children tended to perceive higher levels of parental psychological control and lower levels of behavioral control compared to their parents’ perceptions. In the cross-sectional analysis, a significant association between greater incongruence in psychological/behavioral control and higher levels of children’s anxiety at T1 was observed exclusively in father-child dyads. In prospective analysis, for both father-child and mother-child dyads, congruence in higher levels of psychological control was associated with higher levels of children’s anxiety at T2, while congruence in higher levels of behavioral control was associated with lower levels of children’s anxiety at T2. Additionally, greater incongruence in psychological/behavioral control was linked to higher levels of children’s anxiety at T2. Furthermore, mother-child closeness emerged as a significant moderator such that perceived incongruence in psychological/behavioral control could not affect children’s anxiety at T2 in the high mother-child closeness condition. These findings highlight the significance of considering parent-child congruence and incongruence when examining the impact of parental control on children’s anxiety.

先前的研究主要依靠单一信息者的报告来确定父母控制与儿童焦虑之间的关联。然而，关于父母控制的亲子报告差异与儿童焦虑之间的关系仍然存在模糊性。这项研究通过横断面和前瞻性分析，探讨了亲子对父母控制的感知差异及其与儿童焦虑的关系，以及亲子亲密程度的调节作用。样本包括 790 名儿童（ M_年龄= 11.34， SD = 6.73，女孩占 45.60%），其中父子 741 人，母子 760 人。使用多项式回归和响应面分析来分析数据。结果表明，与父母的看法相比，孩子往往认为父母的心理控制水平较高，而行为控制水平较低。在横断面分析中，仅在父子二人组中观察到心理/行为控制的更大不一致与 T1 儿童较高水平的焦虑之间存在显着关联。在前瞻性分析中，对于父子和母子二人组来说，较高水平的心理控制一致性与儿童在 T2 时的较高焦虑水平相关，而较高水平的行为控制一致性与较低水平的儿童在 T2 焦虑水平相关。 T2。此外，心理/行为控制的更大不一致与儿童在 T2 时的焦虑程度较高有关。 此外，母子亲密程度成为一个重要的调节因素，因此在高母子亲密条件下，感知到的心理/行为控制不一致不会影响儿童在 T2 时的焦虑。这些发现强调了在研究父母控制对儿童焦虑的影响时考虑亲子一致性和不一致的重要性。