Examined associations between perceived parental care and parental control and psychological well-being among ethnically diverse UK adolescents. Psychological well-being was based on total psychological difficulties score from Goodman's Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, increasing score corresponding to increasing difficulties. Results: All minority pupils had lower mean care and higher mean control scores compared with Whites. The difference in psychological difficulties between the highest and lowest tertiles of parental care, adjusted for age, sex, family type and socio-economic circumstances, was: White UK = -2.92 (95% confidence interval -3.72, -2.12); Black Caribbean = -2.08 (-2.94, -1.22); Nigerian/Ghanaian = -2.60 (-3.58, -1.62); Other African = -3.12 (-4.24, -2.01); Indian = -2.77 (-4.09, -1.45); Pakistani/ Bangladeshi = -3.15 (-4.27, -2.03).
