摘要：Objectives: To investigate the effects of mothers’ perfectionism on their adolescent daughters' moral disengagement through mothers’ psychological control. Methods: The participants were third-year female students from a girls’ high-school in Incheon. The adolescents were asked to complete the questionnaires of Almost Perfectionism Scales-Revised, Psychological Control Scale-Youth Self-Report, and Mechanism of Moral Disengagement Scale. The data were analyzed by means of Pearson's correlation and Structural Equation Modeling. Results: The results of this study are as follows. Mothers’ perfectionism had an indirect influence on female adolescents’ moral disengagement through mothers’ psychological control. In other words, high levels of perceived mothers’ perfectionism influence indirectly female adolescents’ moral disengagement by an increase of perceived mothers’ psychological control. Conclusions: The findings of this study have important implications for research on female adolescents’ moral disengagement. The results demonstrate that mothers’ psychological attributes and parenting behaviors related to perfectionism have a decisive effect on the development of female adolescents’ moral disengagement.
