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Children and mothers reported on mothers’ controlling and autonomy-supportive parenting; trained observers coded such parenting during a laboratory interaction between children and mothers. Information on children’s achievement was obtained. Children’s reports of parenting were modestly associated with mothers’ reports and weakly, if at all, with observers’ reports, with no difference in United States and China. The effects of parenting on children’s achievement were largely similar in the two countries, irrespective of reporter. 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