Date created: | Last Updated:

Category: Project

Description: We endeavored to determine whether need satisfaction in the parental relationship would negatively predict millennials' worries and feelings of family achievement guilt during the transition to college in a sample of first- and continuing-generation students. We also explored whether two contradictory types of parental involvement - autonomy-supportive parenting and helicopter parenting - moderated these relationships, and whether the outcomes were similar for first- and continuing-generation students. Incoming college freshmen (N = 355) completed measures of parental relationship need satisfaction, parental involvement, worries about college, and family achievement guilt. Higher levels of need satisfaction in the parental relationship were associated with lower levels of worry and achievement guilt, and autonomy-supportive parenting moderated the relationship between autonomy satisfaction and millennials' worries about college. There were no differences in any of the outcomes examined in this study between first- and continuing-generation students.