Although much research has shown that parental psychological control undermines adolescents’ routine disclosure to parents, past research has not examined whether the effects of psychological control on disclosure are domain-specific and mediated by the quality of adolescents’ interactions with mothers and fathers. The present one-year longitudinal study examined whether parental support and negative interactions with each parent mediated longitudinal associations between adolescents’ ratings of psychological control and adolescents’ disclosure about routine prudential, personal, and multifaceted activities, as defined by social domain theory. These issues were examined over one year in 174 mostly White (74%), U.S. middle class middle adolescents (M = 15.70 years, SD = 0.63, 83 males). Greater parental psychological control was associated over time with less disclosure to both parents about personal activities and less disclosure to fathers about multifaceted issues. Perceived declines in support fully mediated the effects of psychological control on adolescent disclosure to mothers about personal issues and partially mediated the effects on disclosure to fathers about personal and multifaceted issues. In addition, negative interactions led to decreased disclosure about prudential issues. Thus, perceived psychological control and relationship quality had domain-specific and parent-specific longitudinal effects on adolescent disclosure to parents about their routine activities.

尽管许多研究表明，父母的心理控制会破坏青少年对父母的例行披露，但过去的研究并未检验心理控制对披露的影响是否具有特定领域性，并由青少年与母亲和父亲互动的质量介导。本项为期一年的纵向研究检验了父母的支持和与每位父母的负面互动是否介导了青少年心理控制评级与青少年对常规审慎、个人和多方面活动的披露（如社会领域理论所定义）之间的纵向关联。这些问题在一年内对 174 名美国中产阶级青少年（ M = 15.70 岁， SD = 0.63，83 名男性）进行了研究，其中大部分是白人 (74%)。随着时间的推移，父母心理控制力的增强与向父母双方披露个人活动的减少以及向父亲披露多方面问题的减少有关。支持感的下降完全调节了心理控制对青少年向母亲透露个人问题的影响，并部分调节了心理控制对向父亲透露个人和多方面问题的影响。此外，负面互动导致审慎问题披露减少。因此，感知的心理控制和关系质量对青少年向父母披露其日常活动具有特定领域和特定父母的纵向影响。