This study examined the association between recollected parental child-rearing strategies and individual
differences in self-regulation, socio-emotional adjustment, and psychopathology in early adulthood.
Undergraduate participants (N = 286) completed the EMBU – a measure of retrospective accounts of their
parents’ child-rearing behaviors – as well as self-report measures of self-regulation and socio-emotional
adjustment across the domains of eating disorder symptoms, physically risky behavior, interpersonal
problems, personal financial problems, and academic maladjustment.