We’re excited to share our new paper published in the Children and Youth Services Review! Together with colleagues from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Anhui Normal University (China), we tested whether the Anxious Overprotection dimension of the Short Multidimensional Overprotective Parenting Scale (AP-s-MOPS) measures the same construct across parent-child relationships and over time, in Belgian and Chinese populations.

The results show that the scale works similarly across both contexts. Additionally, adolescents perceived their mothers as more overprotective than their fathers, but no significant differences were observed between countries or across time. These findings highlight the scale’s usefulness in assessing overprotective parenting across the Belgian and Chinese population.

You can read the paper here!