Abstract
Surprisingly, previous research has not found that patterns of children's behavior are clearly and consistently related to the overall levels of control attempted by parents or to the element of power in parental influence techniques. As a step toward clarity, some conceptual distinctions relevant to parental behaviors and to offspring reactions are drawn and examined in data from 224 mothers and 180 fathers of sixth-, eighth-, and tenth-grade students. The results indicate the importance of distinguishing between the amount of control attempted by a parent and the control techniques used, between imperative command and coercive control techniques, between offspring's behavioral compliance with and emotional acceptance of parental influence attempts, and between maternal and paternal behavior.
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