Schiffrin Quoted in Yahoo News Article
Professor of Psychology Holly Schiffrin was quoted in a Yahoo News article titled “Aging parents who mean well but make their adult children feel smothered often say 9 phrases in casual conversation.” T
The article references research by Schiffrin and colleagues at the University of Mary Washington who studied over-controlling parenting in college students and found it was tied to more depression and lower life satisfaction, largely because it chipped away at students’ sense of autonomy and competence. The sample was college-aged, so it describes the start of the pattern rather than its later years.
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