Chapter 7 208 Moreover, I was among the first to study the average daily dynamics between parental behavioral control and adolescents’ affective functioning within families (Chapter 5). Typically, macro-timescale studies assume that behavioral control is an adaptive parenting behavior, especially by reducing adolescents’ externalizing problems (H. J. Janssen et al., 2016; Kapetanovic et al., 2019). Interestingly, I found some average negative microtimescale effects of behavioral control (which included the practices monitoring and strictness). That is, when adolescents perceived their parents to be more behaviorally controlling than typical, they reported on average worse affective functioning the same day (i.e., more negative affect and less positive affect) and the following day (i.e., more negative affect). Although meta-analytical work with between-family correlations (Yap et al., 2014) and a recent meso-timescale within-family study (Pelham et al., 2022) suggest that parental monitoring might mitigate adolescents’ depressive symptoms, the findings in this dissertation suggest that behaviorally controlling parenting, which included monitoring, may have negative consequences for adolescents’ affective functioning in daily life by eliciting negative emotions. Future research may want to assess whether non-linear processes might be at play, such that behaviorally controlling practices might evoke an oppositional reaction from the adolescent in the short term (Brehm, 1966; Van Petegem et al., 2015), demonstrated by more negative emotions, for instance, but might lead to better functioning (e.g., fewer depressive symptoms) in the longer term through effective monitoring of adolescents’ problematic activities and whereabouts (Yap et al., 2014). Additionally, I found that psychologically controlling parenting had on average a negative effect on adolescents’ everyday affective functioning (Chapter 5). Similar to behavioral control, when adolescents perceived their parents to be more psychologically controlling than typical, they reported on average worse affective functioning the same (i.e., more negative and less positive affect) and following day (i.e., more negative affect). Though this is one of the first studies showing the effects of parental psychological control on adolescents’ daily functioning, the findings are similar to two diary studies including schoolaged children (Aunola et al., 2013; Van Der Kaap-Deeder et al., 2017). Hence, building upon group-level studies showing that psychological control is one of the parenting dimensions showing the strongest links with internalizing problems in adolescence (Pinquart, 2017b), my novel empirical insights at the within-family level shed light on the potential influence of psychologically controlling parenting on adolescents’ daily emotions. It is important to note that most of the average day-to-day effects of parenting on adolescents’ affective functioning found in this dissertation were small in size (see Table
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