The Relationship Between Perceived Psychological Control Self-Regulation Skills and Academic Motivations of Adolescents

Abstract

International academic literature emphasizes that a person keeps on developing in his or her psychosocial stages. These developmental stages have different characteristics like physiological and psychological. Adolescence is one of these developmental stages and adolescence is a period of heightened "storm and stress" is reconsidered in light of contemporary research. Adolescence is a maturation period of sexual and psychosocial. Persons obtains their autonomy, identity development and social harmony during adolescence period. Developmental tasks that remain for adolescence also leads to a changing in variability and balance in the family processes. Besides, parents realize the idea that their children are growing up. Parents apply many different parenting behaviors during the growth process of their children. One of these behaviors is psychological control. Psychological control, that perceived by adolescent, which is applied by parents, affects adolescent’s many behaviors. The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationships between perceived psychological control, self-regulation and academic motivation for adolescent persons. Personal information form for demographics variables, Psychological Control Scale, Perceived Self-Regulation Scale and Academic Motivation Scale were used for collecting data. A total of 484 adolescents participated in this study. Participants are student from 8 different high school in Aydın. Because of the study we found that perceived psychological control from parents effected academic motivation.

Keywords

• self regulation,perceived psychological control,academic motivation

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