Childhood adaptation: Perception of the parenting style and the anxious‐depressive symptomatology

Abstract

Objectives: Childhood adaptation is essential for proper social-emotional development. Children growing up in a family context where they feel supported and protected are less vulnerable in the presence of psychopathology. The aim of this study is analysing the impact of parenting styles and the anxious-depressive symptoms on child adaptation. Design and Setting: A total of 367 children between the ages of 10 and 12, following a similar distribution by sex. The children completed self-reports assessing parenting styles, child adaptation, and depressive-anxiety symptomatology. Methods: The data were analysed using two complementary methodologies: linear regressions and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). Results: Both methodologies indicated that the main predictors explaining child adaptation were depression and an authoritative parenting style. The fsQCA models explained a greater amount of variance and included more variables in their prediction than the regression models. Conclusion: Identifying family and emotional aspects when working with children may help professionals to improve childhood adaptation. Consequently, welladapted children are less likely to suffer the negative consequences of emotional symptoms in later evolutionary stages.

The analysis of the parenting implications on the emotional closeness of parent-child improvement

“…Parenting is the most prominent parent behavior, i.e. by way of disciplining children, instilling the values of life on children, teach life skills, and manage emotions so that children can form the concept of the self (Johnston & Fletcher, 2015;Maguire-Jack & Klein, 2015;Rodriguez, Hartley, & Bolt, 2019;Schoeps, Valero-Moreno, Perona, Pérez-Marín, & Montoya-Castilla, 2020). We can discipline the child with ways to say it subtly but firmly, don't get used to snap or hit, children will quickly against if we snap or hit, and then, if children make mistakes parents give children the consequences, tell the children that the actions were wrong and give additional tasks as a consequence, for example, sweep the house, clean rooms and so on, and do not involve themselves for conflict with the child, parents often happen easily triggered angry and wanted to hit the child (Khade, Wang, & Decker, 2018;Sadik, 2018;Wang & Liu, 2018).…”