Isabelle Gingras

TL;DR: The results of three studies show that adolescents who experience a balance of need satisfaction across important life contexts, including at school, at home, with friends, and in part-time jobs, reported higher well-being and better school adjustment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined motivation for parenting and some of its correlates in parents and children, using three samples, factor analyses confirmed the distinction between autonomous and controlled forms of parenting motivation, which refers to investing in the parenting role because it is interesting and meaningful whereas controlled motivation refers to investment based on external or internal pressures.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relation between mothers' trust in organismic development, autonomy, and adaptation among mothers and their young children and found that trust in organisms was distinct from optimism, neuroticism, and social desirability whereas it correlated with having relaxed expectations for developmental milestones and making fewer social comparisons about one's child.

TL;DR: The authors found that mothers placed greater emphasis on intrinsic over extrinsic values than did adolescents, and the congruence of mothers' and adolescents' focus on intrinsic values was moderated by the extent to which adolescents experienced satisfaction of their basic needs for autonomy, relatedness, and competence at home.