Controlling Parents Spawn Mean Collegians (IMAGE)

University of Vermont

Controlling Parents Spawn Mean Collegians

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College students whose parents lay on the guilt or try to manipulate them may translate feelings of stress into similar mean behavior with their own friends, a new study by a University of Vermont psychologist has found.

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Elise Whittemore-Hill

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