This study investigated the influence of life satisfaction and maternal locus of control on the perception of mothers about their relationships with their adolescent child. Two hundred fifty-six mothers answered a questionnaire with all the relevant dimensions of the study. Besides of the general scores, results of four specific dimensions underlying the life satisfaction scale and five dimensions underlying the locus of parental control scale were analyzed. The mothers' perception about their relationship with their adolescent children was also measured through a general score and five specific dimensions. Even the control of the amount of demographic variance, hierarchical multiple regression analysis showed that a significant amount of variance of mother-adolescent children relationship may be predicted by the general measures of life satisfaction, parental locus of control and also by the specific measures of factors like parental control, parental responsibility and parental efficacy.
mother-adolescent child relationship; maternal control; life satisfaction
