Jean-Michel Robichaud

University of Moncton · Faculty of Health Sciences and Community Services

The studies described in this paper investigated whether cultural hierarchy plays a moderating role in the association between parental autonomy support and child psychosocial adjustment, employing samples presenting a wide range of cultural variability (parents born in 71 different nations). The participants’ cultural backgrounds, based on the par...

Adolescents' willingness to share information with their parents about their life is related to their positive adjustment. As such, it is important to identify factors that lead adolescents to share this knowledge with parents. This study takes a step in this direction by examining the role of parental apologies following parental offenses, in rela...

The present research sought to test the overarching hypothesis that the happiest people, that is, people with the highest level of psychological well-being, are those (1) who experience the highest levels of passion (and especially harmonious passion) in several enjoyable everyday life activities, and (2) who display higher levels of autonomous reg...

Les experts en pratiques parentales recommandent que les parents conjuguent raisonnement et stratégies de contrôle ferme (p.ex., les contraintes) lorsque leurs adolescents enfreignent les règles de façon persistante. Ainsi, les parents encourageraient l’atteinte de deux objectifs clés de socialisation, soit l’obéissance et l’intériorisation. Or, de...

Researchers have identified socioeconomic status (SES) as a risk factor for suboptimal parenting in guided-learning settings. Yet, the confounding role of co-occurring child risk factors in the SES-parenting linkage is understudied. In this prospective study, we examined how SES, child temperament, and child cognitive abilities of 197 mother-presch...

When remembering over the short-term, long-term knowledge has a large effect on the number of correctly recalled items and little impact on memory for order. This is true for example, when the effects of semantic category are examined. Contrary to what these findings suggest, Poirier et al., (2015) proposed that memory for order relies on the level...

Praise may have different effects on child self-esteem, depending on its informational and evaluative value. In this multiphase, multimethod investigation, we assessed the interplaying role of two outcome-oriented praises that differed in their informational and evaluative value (i.e., descriptive and non-specific praise) on indicators of child sel...

The Interracial Couples’ Life Transitions (ICLT) model proposes that: i) interethnic parents experience more coparenting difficulties upon the birth of a child compared to same-ethnicity parents; and ii) there exists heterogeneity in interethnic parents’ coparenting quality, thus the coparenting experience cannot be generalized across all interethn...

“How to Talk so Kids will Listen & Listen so Kids will Talk” is a universal parenting program hypothesized to teach three key parenting components: autonomy support, affiliation, and structure. To assess its impact on these components, we conducted its first randomized controlled trial. We recruited 293 parent-child dyads, which we randomized into...

Experimental studies on parent-youth disagreements have revealed the potential socialization advantages of favoring parental constraints with strong problem-constraint links (i.e., logical consequences) over constraints with weak problem-constraint links (e.g., mild punishments). In this study, we extended this line of research by examining the rel...

This study investigated the protective role of maternal adaptive emotion regulation in applying controlling parenting practices while assisting their toddler in completing two different problem-solving tasks. More specifically, the role of maternal emotion regulation was examined relative to significant situational (i.e., task difficulty) and child...

Objectives Authority exertion in rule-breaking contexts represents both a considerable challenge and a unique opportunity for parents to foster their children’s internalization process (i.e., children’s process of understanding and abiding to the importance of various rules and their underlying values). In this study, we investigated the effects of...

Past studies looking at antecedents of controlling parenting revealed an association between parents’ use of these detrimental practices and their perceptions of the environment as threatening for their children. However, the causal impact of environmental threats on controlling practices remained to be assessed. This study filled this gap using...

It is well established that parents’ responses to adolescents’ transgressions play a role in adolescents’ future compliance and internalization process. However, research has yet to reach a consensus on the effectiveness of several specific authority exertion strategies. One of these strategies, which theoretically holds the potential to foster bot...

Experimental studies focusing on the socialization role of parental authority exertion in persistent rule‐breaking contexts involving non‐personal issues have recently shown the advantages of using logical consequences over alternative strategies (mild punishments, reasoning and no‐authority). Using an experimental vignette approach and a sample of...

In the guided learning domain of socialization, studies examining the antecedents of controlling parenting suggest that children's lack of competence in a task could trigger controlling practices in that task. However, a stringent test of this relation remains to be conducted. This study examined this relation using a sample of 101 children (Mage=...

Using hypothetical scenarios of rule-breaking situations, this study contrasted two behavioral limitation (BLIMIT) strategies that differ in terms of their connection to the transgression-induced problem (logical consequences vs. mild punishments, compared to no BLIMIT). A total of 215 children (M age = 10.42) and their mothers rated the effectiven...