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The Role of Parenting Styles in Children's Problem Behavior
Kaisa AunolaJari-erik Nurmisubject
ExternalizationChild rearingmedia_common.quotation_subjectSocial environmentAffect (psychology)Social relationEducationDevelopmental psychologyEl NiñoAffectionPediatrics Perinatology and Child HealthDevelopmental and Educational PsychologyParenting stylesPsychologymedia_commondescription
This study investigated the combination of mothers' and fathers' parenting styles (affection, behavioral control, and psychological control) that would be most influential in predicting their children's internal and external problem behaviors. A total of 196 children (aged 5-6 years) were followed up six times from kindergarten to the second grade to measure their problem behaviors. Mothers and fathers filled in a questionnaire measuring their parenting styles once every year. The results showed that a high level of psychological control exercised by mothers combined with high affection predicted increases in the levels of both internal and external problem behaviors among children. Behavioral control exercised by mothers decreased children's external problem behavior but only when combined with a low level of psychological control.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-02-04 | Child Development |