Influences of the Differences Between Mothers’ and Children’s Perceptions of Parenting Styles

Abstract

In this study, we explored the differences between mothers' and children's perceptions of mothers' parenting styles (DMCP of MPS) and examined the effects of these differences on children's depression, aggression, and ego-resilience. A total of 233 pairs of mothers and teen-aged children participated in the study. Our analysis produced four main findings. First, the mothers perceived their parenting attitudes as more rational and affectionate than their children did; children whose mothers rated their parenting styles more favorably had higher levels of depression and aggression and lower ego-resilience. Second, the correlation analysis and the structural equation model verification confirmed that as the DMCP of MPS increased, children's levels of depression and aggression increased, and their ego-resilience decreased. Third, ego-resilience partly mediated the relationship between DMCP-Rationality and depression. Lastly, we found that egoresilience and depression had dual mediation effects on the relationship between DMCP-Rationality and children's aggression. This paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of these findings and suggestions for future studies.

Relationship between Depressive Mood and Parenting Style of Junior High School Students and Educational Countermeasures

“…3.4 logistic regression analysis of the relationship between depression and parenting found that depression of junior middle school students is significantly negatively correlated with mother's care and father's care, and parental care is a protective factor for adolescent depression, which is consistent with previous research results [11], suggesting that parental care can reduce the occurrence of adolescent depression. The depression of junior high school students is positively correlated with mother's apathy and father's apathy, and is positively correlated with mother's overprotection and father's overprotection.…”

A Systematic Review of “Helicopter Parenting” and Its Relationship With Anxiety and Depression

“…Controlling parenting and depression: 13 of 15 studies found a relationship between parental control and depression (Finkenauer et al, 2005 ; Mandara and Pikes, 2008 ; Soenens et al, 2012 ; Cui et al, 2014 ; Gargurevich and Soenens, 2016 ; Inguglia et al, 2016 ; Cai and Tu, 2020 ; Cho et al, 2020 ; Klein et al, 2020 ; Levitt et al, 2020 ; Rogers et al, 2020 ; Basili et al, 2021 ; Kullberg et al, 2021 ). The remaining 2 studies did not find a relationship (Finkelstein et al, 2001 ; Kullberg et al, 2020 ).…”

“…The remaining 2 studies did not find a relationship (Finkelstein et al, 2001 ; Kullberg et al, 2020 ). In addition, 2 studies focused solely on maternal control, and both found a relationship with depression (Mandara and Pikes, 2008 ; Cho et al, 2020 ).…”

Empathy and authenticity online: The roles of moral identity, moral disengagement, and parenting style

“…This is a common method for examining authoritative parenting (Pasquali et al., 2012), whereby perceived parenting styles have been consistently related to young people's psychological functioning (Brand et al., 2009) and children's reports of parenting styles are argued to be equally valid as direct observations (Golden, 1969). Perhaps unsurprisingly, self‐assessment of one's own parenting style can lead to more positive evaluations and adolescents’ perspectives on parenting style may not reflect their parents’ perceptions or intentions (Cho et al., 2020). Recent research indicates that perceptual differences in evaluations of parenting style across parents and children may, themselves, be informative and help to explain adolescent psychosocial outcomes (Cho et al., 2020).…”

“…Perhaps unsurprisingly, self‐assessment of one's own parenting style can lead to more positive evaluations and adolescents’ perspectives on parenting style may not reflect their parents’ perceptions or intentions (Cho et al., 2020). Recent research indicates that perceptual differences in evaluations of parenting style across parents and children may, themselves, be informative and help to explain adolescent psychosocial outcomes (Cho et al., 2020). Thus, future examinations of the role of parenting in relation to moral identity, online empathy and/or online authenticity could consider studying parent‐child dyads with the inclusion of parental views.…”