Helping or Hovering? The Effects of Helicopter Parenting on College Students’ Well-Being

By Holly Schiffrin, M. Liss, Haley A. Miles-McLean, Katherine A. Geary, Mindy J. Erchull, Taryn Tashner. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2013

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, Social Psychology

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Is Hovering Smothering or Loving? An Examination of Parental Warmth as a Moderator of Relations Between Helicopter Parenting and Emerging Adults’ Indices of Adjustment (2015, positive): “…development including more pessimistic views of marriage, indices of anxiety, depression, and lower life satisfaction and psychological well-being (LeMoyne & Buchanan, 2011; Schiffrin et al., 2014; Segrin, Woszidlo, Givertz, Bauer, & Murphy, 2012; Willoughby, Hersh, Padilla-Walker, & Nelson, 2013).”
The Relationship between Helicopter Parenting and Adjustment to College (2017, background): “Overparenting hinders the development of coping mechanisms, leading students to feel that they lack control over their lives, resulting in a lack of volition (Schiffrin et al. 2014).”
The Effects of Maternal and Paternal Helicopter Parenting on the Self-determination and Well-being of Emerging Adults (2019, background): “…restrict their children’s behavior and decrease their children’s sense of autonomy, they can create a cycle of dependence in which their children feel incapable of functioning independently and must rely on their parents for assistance (Liss and Schiffrin 2014; Padilla-Walker and Nelson 2012).”
Does the Amount of Time Mothers Spend With Children or Adolescents Matter (2015, background): “Recent scholarship on college students has shown that parents’ overinvolvement (helicoptering) relates to worse psychological well-being or ineffective coping skills of children (LeMoyne & Buchanan, 2011; Segrin, Woszidlo, Givertz, & Montgomery, 2013) through dampening a sense of autonomy or compete”
The Effects of Helicopter Parenting on Academic Motivation (2017, positive): “For example, perceived competence mediated the relationship between helicopter parenting and emotional outcomes (Schiffrin et al., 2014) and may also affect the relationship between helicopter parenting and academic outcomes.”
Providing a ‘‘Leg Up’’: Parental Involvement and Opportunity Hoarding in College (2018, background): “The young-adulthood literature and emerging scholarship addressing college ‘‘helicopter’’ parenting suggest that some parents today may be more involved with their older children, and for longer into the life course, than they once were (Hamilton 2016; Schiffrin et al. 2014; Settersten and Ray 2010;”
Intensive Parenting: Does it Have the Desired Impact on Child Outcomes? (2014, background): “2012) as well as a decreased sense of autonomy, competence, and relatedness to others (Kim et al. 2013; Padilla-Walker and Nelson 2012; Schiffrin et al. 2014).”