%0 Journal Article %T Control Parental y Problemas Emocionales y de Conducta en Adolescentes %A BETANCOURT OCAMPO %A DIANA %A ANDRADE PALOS %A PATRICIA %J Revista Colombiana de Psicolog¨Şa %D 2011 %I Universidad Nacional de Colombia %X the purpose of this research project was to determine whether gender made a difference with respect to the effects of psychological and behavioral parental control on the emotional and behavioral problems in male and female adolescents. a non-random sample of 587 mexico city public high school students with a mean age of 13.8 was selected, of which 46.8% were male and 53.2% female. the maternal and paternal control perception scale for adolescents and the adjusted version of the youth self-report were used. the overall results showed that both maternal and paternal psychological control had a greater influence than behavioral control on the presence of emotional and behavioral problems. %K adolescents %K behavioral control %K psychological control %K behavior problems %K emotional problems. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0121-54692011000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en