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Chinese secondary school students (N = 3,017) responded to instruments measuring their subjective evaluation of parental behavioral control (including dimensions of parental knowledge, expectation, monitoring, discipline, and demandingness) and parental psychological control. Results showed that paternal behavioral control was perceived to be significantly lower than maternal behavioral control. Concerning the inter-relationships among different dimensions of parental behavioral control, different indicators of parental behavioral control were inter-related and parental monitoring was the strongest predictor of parental knowledge. While composite parental behavioral control was weakly related to parental psychological control, different aspects of parental behavioral control were differentially related to parental psychological control. This work was financially supported by the Research Grants Council of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong (Grant CUHK4293/03H) and Wofoo Foundation Limited. The author wishes to thank Britta Lee for her assistance in collecting and analyzing the data. Notes ∗pFW < .001 pT < .00005 ∗∗∗p < .001. ∗∗p < .01. aBorderline significance; pT < .05.
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