TY - JOUR
T1 - Helicopter Parenting and Young Adults’ Well-Being
T2 - A Comparison Between United States and Finland
AU - Cui, Ming
AU - Janhonen-Abruquah, Hille
AU - Darling, Carol A.
AU - Carlos Chavez, Fiorella L.
AU - Palojoki, Päivi
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This project was made possible by the Fulbright Scholar Program’s award to Ming Cui. It was also supported, in part, by the National Council on Family Relations’s Innovation Grant Program. Opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed within this work do not necessarily reflect the views of the Fulbright Program or the National Council on Family Relations.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 SAGE Publications.
PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - Helicopter parenting, defined as a form of overinvolved parenting of young adult children, is shown to be associated with young adult children’s well-being. Furthermore, the phenomenon of helicopter parenting is increasingly evident across various cultures. In this study, the association between helicopter parenting and young adult children’s well-being problems was examined, and the associations were compared between samples of American and Finnish young adults. With a sample of 441 American and 306 Finnish university students, results from path models suggested that maternal and paternal helicopter parenting was associated with university students’ symptoms of anxiety and depression, life dissatisfaction, and emotional dysregulation. Furthermore, even though the mean levels of helicopter parenting were lower among Finnish parents as compared with American parents, the associations between helicopter parenting and young adults’ well-being problems were, in general, equally significant. The implications for university students, parents of students, educators, and university administrators from different cultural backgrounds were also discussed.
AB - Helicopter parenting, defined as a form of overinvolved parenting of young adult children, is shown to be associated with young adult children’s well-being. Furthermore, the phenomenon of helicopter parenting is increasingly evident across various cultures. In this study, the association between helicopter parenting and young adult children’s well-being problems was examined, and the associations were compared between samples of American and Finnish young adults. With a sample of 441 American and 306 Finnish university students, results from path models suggested that maternal and paternal helicopter parenting was associated with university students’ symptoms of anxiety and depression, life dissatisfaction, and emotional dysregulation. Furthermore, even though the mean levels of helicopter parenting were lower among Finnish parents as compared with American parents, the associations between helicopter parenting and young adults’ well-being problems were, in general, equally significant. The implications for university students, parents of students, educators, and university administrators from different cultural backgrounds were also discussed.
KW - Finland
KW - United States
KW - helicopter parenting
KW - well-being
KW - young adult
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U2 - 10.1177/1069397118802253
DO - 10.1177/1069397118802253
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85058692808
SN - 1069-3971
VL - 53
SP - 410
EP - 427
JO - Cross-Cultural Research
JF - Cross-Cultural Research
IS - 4
ER -