The Role of Parenting Styles in Children's Problem Behavior

Aunola, Kaisa; Nurmi, Jari‐Erik

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2005.00840.x-i1

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“…Although parents often have similar parenting strategies within families, due to both assortative mating and mutual influence and decision-making (Coley, Votruba-Drzal, & Schindler, 2008), research has shown that mothers tend to engage in more frequent interactions with their children and are more responsive than fathers; fathers tend to be more demanding and have more distant relationships with their children (Lewis & Lamb, 2003). Previous studies have found that the correlation between parenting and child EPB tends to be higher for mothers than for fathers (see Rothbaum & Weisz, 1994 for a meta-analytic review), and also that maternal parenting is more strongly predictive of children's EPB than paternal parenting (Aunola & Nurmi, 2005;Gadeyne et al, 2004;Meunier et al, in press). However, the differentiated and independent ways in which fathers and mothers influence their children's behavior are far from being fully understood.…”

Section: Parental Behavior and Epb Trajectoriesmentioning

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“…Cronbach's α ranged from .65 to .89; the total percentage of variance explained by the nine factors was 64.3%; test-retest correlations for a sample of 45 parents varied between .51 and .84; and the items were not correlated with social desirability. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) showed that two second-order factors covering the Support and Negative Control parenting dimensions reported in the literature (Aunola & Nurmi, 2005;Baumrind, 1971) emerged from the initial factor solution. The Supportive factor was composed of Positive Parenting, Autonomy, Monitoring, and Rules, whereas the Negative Controlling factor included Discipline, Harsh Punishment, Material Rewarding, Inconsistent Discipline and Ignoring.…”

Section: Parental Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Research is increasingly focused on how parental differential treatment (PDT), rather than, or in addition to, the absolute level of parenting (ALP), may explain the influence parents have on their children. A large body of work has demonstrated links between ALP and child adjustment, with negative control behavior (e.g., parental coercion, inconsistent, conflictual and/or harsh discipline) and lack of supportive behavior (e.g., responsiveness, positive parenting) being consistently related to increased externalizing symptoms (Aunola & Nurmi, 2005;Meunier, Roskam, & Browne, in press). Similarly, differential treatment in negative control and supportive behavior has been associated with higher EPB in the disfavored child.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Thus, a negative score indicates "self disfavored", a score of 0 indicates "equal treatment", and a positive score indicates "self favored". Although parenting is more commonly considered in existing research by using separated dimensions-such as support and negative control (Aunola & Nurmi, 2005)-the use of a general parenting construct was preferred for several reasons beside data reduction purpose. First, in view of Rothbaum and Weisz's (1994) meta-analytic review, composite measures of parenting are recognized to provide more predictive power than do more specific dimensions.…”

Section: Measurement Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Externalizing behavior trajectories: The role of parenting, sibling relationships and child personality

Meunier

Roskam

Stiévenart

et al. 2011

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

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a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f oBased on longitudinal multilevel modeling and using a multi-informant strategy, this study examines trajectories of externalizing problem behavior (EPB) in childhood as predicted by parental behavior (absolute level of parenting [ALP] and parental differential treatment [PDT]), parental self-efficacy (PSE), child personality and sibling relationships. Besides main effects, several interactions were tested. The effects of changes in parenting on changes in EPB were also examined. A total of 119 families from the French-speaking area of Belgium rearing a child (3-to 5-year-olds at the onset of the study) referred for EPB were studied. The effects of both level-of and changes-in mothers' ALP were partially confirmed, but for fathers, only ALP was predictive. There were some significant interactions between ALP and PDT for both parents. Mothers' PSE explained some variance in EPB, additional to that explained by the parenting measures. Some parenting by personality and by sibling relationship interactions were found.

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Section: Parental Behavior and Epb Trajectoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Parental Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Parental Behavior and Epb Trajectoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Measurement Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Externalizing behavior trajectories: The role of parenting, sibling relationships and child personality

Meunier

Roskam

Stiévenart

et al. 2011

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

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“…With regard to the proximal factors, parenting and attachment are among the most documented. Parenting has mainly been appraised according to childrearing behavior conceptualized along two key dimensions: support and negative control (Aunola & Nurmi, 2005). Support encompasses the affective nature of the parent-child relationship and refers to a variety of related behavior including warmth, acceptance, involvement, autonomy, monitoring and the establishment of guidelines.…”

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When there seem to be no predetermining factors: Early child and proximal family risk predicting externalizing behavior in young children incurring no distal family risk

Roskam¹,

Meunier²,

Stiévenart³

et al. 2013

Research in Developmental Disabilities

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Externalizing behavior (EB) is characterized by agitation, opposition, aggression, provocation, negative thoughts and transgression of social norms (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2000). A certain level of EB is considered to be typical in preschoolers (Wakschlag et al., 2007). But persistent high levels of EB were found in subgroups of children (e.g. Calkins, Blandon, Williford, & Keane, 2007). Research has tried to identify risk factors that potentially increase the likelihood of EB. Based on the work of key leaders in this topic, Loeber and Farrington (2000) established a list according to several ecological levels, i.e. child, family, school, peer and neighborhood factors. The relations between child and family factors and EB have especially been documented in young children, while the potential contribution of school, peer and neighborhood factors was more specific in the prediction of school age children's and adolescents' EB. The current research examines the impact of two single risk factors at the child level, i.e. personality and inhibition capacities, and two single risk factors at the family level, i.e. attachment and parenting, and the impact of their cumulative effect on young children's EB incurring no distal family risk. We first review studies documenting the relations between children's EB and each of the four risk factors at the child and family levels. Second, we document research into cumulative risk with EB as an outcome. The main objective of the current study was to examine the impact of two child risk factors, i.e. personality and inhibition, and two proximal family risk factors, i.e. parenting and attachment, and the impact of their cumulative effect on later externalizing behavior among young children incurring no distal family risk. Data were collected in a longitudinal two-wave design from 161 non-referred and referred children aged three to five years at the onset of the study. All of the children were raised in families of middle to high socioeconomic status, i.e. their parents were educated to a middle to high level, had access to the job market and lived together as couples. The four risk domains were assessed at the onset of the study, while EB was rated both at the onset of the study and in the 24-month follow-up. Results confirmed that the four risk domains were each both correlates of EB and efficient at discriminating non-referred from referred children; that their combination regardless of their content (cumulative risk) provided a strong prediction of both later EB and non-referred vs referred sample membership. The results are discussed both for research and clinical purposes. ß

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Children's Parents

Bornstein

2015

Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science

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This chapter surveys central issues concerning children's parents. The chapter first addresses the two faces of parenting, parenting as a phase of adult development and parenting as an instrumental activity vis‐à‐vis children. Next, the chapter briefly overviews the origins of parenting studies, theories of parenting, and future directions in parenting research. The following two sections of the chapter address the principal actors in the human drama of caregiving, mothers, fathers, and children's other principal caregivers, and, then, cognitions and practices that principally instantiate parenting. With the actors, attitudes, and actions associated with parenting introduced, arguments for the meaningfulness of parenting effects are then evaluated in correlational designs and various kinds of experiments that demonstrate the value of parenting (challenges to parenting effects from behavior genetics and group socialization theory are also addressed). Parents and parenting vary tremendously, and determinants of parenting are a major issue in the field; the multicausal origins of parenting in characteristics of parents, characteristics of children, and contextual characteristics are explored next. The chapter closes with some practical issues‐;for example neglect, abuse, and parenting interventions‐;before reaching more general conclusions.

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The Role of Parenting Styles in Children's Problem Behavior

Cited by 450 publications

References 72 publications

Externalizing behavior trajectories: The role of parenting, sibling relationships and child personality

Externalizing behavior trajectories: The role of parenting, sibling relationships and child personality

When there seem to be no predetermining factors: Early child and proximal family risk predicting externalizing behavior in young children incurring no distal family risk

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