Parental Overcontrol and Emerging Adult Risky Sexual Behavior: Moderated Mediation By Gender and Peer Alienation

Peer alienation mediated the effect between maternal and paternal overcontrol and emerging adult risky sexual behavior, suggesting parental overcontrol was protective against risky sexual behavior by alienating emerging adults from their peers. Gender moderated the mediation such that the indirect effect in the paternal-dyad was significantly stronger for males.