Helicopter parenting graduate students: Key individual and family characteristics

Abstract

ABSTRACT With a sample of graduate students (N = 367), the current study explores graduate student and family demographic variables that are associated with maternal and paternal helicopter parenting. Gender, only child status, international student status, and percentage of parental financial support had large or medium effects or associations with helicopter parenting and combined to predict 41% of the variance in maternal helicopter parenting and 50% of the variance in paternal helicopter parenting. Implications for scholars and higher education administrators are discussed.