Browsing by Author "Davies, Patrick T."

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Explaining the Spillover From Interparental Conflict To Adolescent Adjustment Through Self-Determination Theory
(Springer, 2023) Koçak, Aylin; Mouratidis, Athanasios; Uçanok, Zehra; Davies, Patrick T.
Although the association between interparental conflict and adolescent adjustment is well documented, the intervening mechanisms that explain this relationship are not fully understood. Guided by the spillover hypothesis and the self-determination theory, this study examined whether the associations among interparental conflict and adolescent depressive feelings and life satisfaction were explained by maternal autonomy support and, in turn, by adolescent need frustration. Participants were 925 Turkish adolescents (M-age = 16.08 years, SD = 0.31) and their mothers (M-age = 41.43, SD = 5.16). Results from path analysis showed that interparental conflict was related to lower maternal autonomy support, and in turn to higher adolescent need frustration. Greater need frustration, in turn, predicted higher adolescent depressive feelings and lower life satisfaction six months later. These findings suggested that conflictual parental relationships may predict adolescent adjustment through poor parenting and adolescent need frustration. The findings and related directions for future research are discussed in the context of self-determination theory and its role in advancing a process-oriented understanding of the familial and individual determinants of adolescent adjustment.
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Need Satisfaction as a Mediator of Associations Between Interparental Relationship Dimensions and Autonomy Supportive Parenting: a Weekly Diary Study
(Wiley, 2020) Kocak, Aylin; Mouratidis, Athanasios; Ucanok, Zehra; Selcuk, Emre; Davies, Patrick T.
Guided by the self-determination theory, this weekly diary study tested a process model in which week-to-week mother-reported interparental conflict and perceived partner responsiveness were associated with maternal autonomy support by means of maternal psychological need satisfaction. During six consecutive weeks, 258 mothers (M-age = 41.71 years) and their 157 adolescents (51.4% females, M-age = 14.92 years) from Turkey provided weekly reports of the study variables via an online survey. Multilevel analyses showed that maternal need satisfaction was predicted by lower levels of interparental conflict and greater levels of perceived partner responsiveness. Maternal need satisfaction, in turn, was positively associated with maternal and adolescent reports of maternal autonomy support. Further, these week-to-week associations were partly moderated by maternal perfectionism. The results underscore the dynamic nature of the intra-family relationships, the important role of particular conditions in which mothers may become more autonomy supportive, and the necessity to consider mother's personal characteristics while examining these dynamics.