The role of parenting styles on behavior problem profiles of adolescents

Parental behavior is one of the most influential factors on the development of adolescent externalizing and internalizing behavior problems. These behavioral problems are closely related and often co-occur. The objectives of this work were: (i) to identify adolescents profiles according to their behavior problems; (ii) to explore individual, family, and social characteristics associated with these profiles; and (iii) to analyze the potential role of parenting styles in belonging to adolescents’ profiles. A total of 449 Spanish adolescents (223 from families declared at-risk and enrolled in Child Welfare Services and 226 from families from the general population) participated in this study. The analyses revealed three profiles of adolescents based on external and internal behavior problems (adjusted, external maladjustment, and internal maladjustment). Parenting styles explained the adolescents’ belonging to different profiles, in which the indulgent style was the most favorable in general terms. The distinctive role of parenting styles on two types of maladjustment profiles was confirmed. The relationship between parenting styles and adolescent adjustment is a key component that should be included in interventions according to adolescents’ behavior problem profiles. Furthermore, the results shed light on the need that family interventions are complemented with individualized interventions with adolescents that accumulate stressful life events.Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad EDU2013-41441-

Perceived Parenting Styles and Psycho-social Wellbeing of Nigerian Adolescents

The influence of parenting styles on the psychosocial wellbeing of Nigerian adolescents is yet to be given adequate research attention. This study bridges the gap in knowledge. Findings may be useful in planning appropriate interventions programme necessary to improve the psychosocial wellbeing of adolescents in Osun state, southwestern Nigeria and relation with similar social cultural background. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 332 (mean age = 14) in-school adolescents who responded to Mental Health Continuum – Short Form (MHS-SF) and Parenting Style Instrument (PSI). Descriptive and inferential statistics (Regression, Independent sample t test and One Way ANOVA) were used for data analysis. A low level of psychosocial wellbeing was observed among the adolescents. Prevalence of very low levels of emotional wellbeing (16.9%), social wellbeing (22%), and psychological wellbeing (19.3%) were reported. Patterns of observed parenting styles are authoritative parenting style (45.5%, 41.6%, and 12.9%), authoritarian parenting style (53%, 30.7% and 16.3%); permissive parenting style (64.2%, 20.7% and 15.1%) for low, high and very high levels respectively. No significant gender difference was observed in the psychosocial wellbeing scores of the adolescents; a significant religious affiliation difference was found in the social wellbeing of the participants. Adolescents from public schools manifested higher levels of social wellbeing than their counterparts from private schools. Parenting styles significantly predict level of psychosocial wellbeing of the adolescents. Neither family type nor family size had significant influence on level of psycho-social wellbeing of the adolescents

A formal evaluation of the performance of different corporate styles in stable and turbulent environments

The notion of "parenting styles", introduced by Goold, Campbell and Alexander, has been widely acknowledged by the Corporate Strategy literature as a good broad description of the different ways in which corporate managers choose to manage and organize multibusiness firms. The purpose of this paper is to present a formal test of the relationship between parenting style and performance. For this test, we developed a set of agent-based simulations using the Performance Landscapes framework, which captures and describes the evolution of firms led by different parenting styles in business environments with different levels of complexity and dynamism. We found that the relative performance of each style is contingent upon the characteristics of the environment in which the firm operates. In less complex business environments, the Strategic Planning style outperforms the Strategic Control and Financial Control styles. In highly complex and highly dynamic environments, by contrast, the Strategic Control style performs best. Our results also demonstrate the importance of planning and flexibility at the corporate level and so contribute to the wider debate on Strategic Planning vs. Emergent Strategies.Corporate strategy; Parenting styles; Agent-based models;

Perceived maternal autonomy-support and early adolescent emotion regulation: a longitudinal study

This study investigated longitudinal associations between perceived maternal autonomy-supportive parenting and early adolescents' use of three emotion regulation (ER) styles: emotional integration, suppressive regulation, and dysregulation. We tested whether perceived maternal autonomy support predicted changes in ER and whether these ER styles, in turn, related to changes in adjustment (i.e., depressive symptoms, self-esteem). Participants (N= 311, mean age at Time 1 = 12.04) reported on perceived maternal autonomy support, their ER styles, and adjustment at two moments in time, spanning a one-year interval. Cross-lagged analyses showed that perceived maternal autonomy support predicted increases in emotional integration and decreases in suppressive regulation. By contrast, emotional dysregulation predicted decreases in perceived autonomy-supportive parenting. Further, increases in emotional integration were predictive of increases in self-esteem, and decreases in suppressive regulation were predictive of decreases in depressive symptoms. Together, the results show that early adolescents' perception of their mothers as autonomy-supportive is associated with increases in adaptive ER strategies and subsequent adjustment

Parenting styles and academic achievement

Type of parenting style found to be influences the child's academic achievement. This study aimed to identify the type of parenting styles practiced by parents and its relationship to the academic achievement of children.They are 406 of form five students involved in this study. Researcher used "Parenting Style Scale" instrument to measure the parenting styles.The results revealed that many parents adopt authoritative parenting style and there is no significant relationship between parenting styles and their child's academic achievement

The moderating effect of parenting styles on the relationship between social anxiety and depressive symptomatology in adolescents

Intruduction: The comorbidity between depression and social anxiety is high in adolescence. Parental emotion socialization behaviors have been associated with the development of social skills and depressive symptomatology. Objectives: This study aims to explore the moderating effect of parenting styles on the relationship between social anxiety and depression, to study the associations between them, and to analyze the relationship between parenting styles, social anxiety and depressive symptomatology in adolescents. Methods: The sample consisted of 122 parents and their children. Self-report instruments were used to assess social anxiety, depressive symptomatology and parenting styles. Results: It was found that social anxiety is significantly associated to depression and that the former has a predictive effect on the latter. The parenting styles revealed no significant associations with either depressive symptomatology or with social anxiety, but a moderating effect of explorer parenting style was found in the relationship between social anxiety (public performance) and depressive symptomatology. Conclusions: The present investigation confirmed the existence of a significant association between social anxiety and depressive symptomatology in adolescence and suggests an effect of parental practices of emotional socialization in this relation, which, however, should be replicated in future research. It will also be important to study the effect of parenting styles on children's emotional regulation skills and their possible mediating effect on the relationship between social anxiety and depression.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

The Relationship Between Family Environment, Parenting Styles and Adolescents’ Well-Being in Cameroon

The main objective of this thesis was to explore the relationship between family environment, parenting styles and adolescents’ well-being in a sample of Cameroonian adolescents. A number of factors in adolescents’ home environment are believed to influence adolescents’ well-being. A theoretical framework of the relationship between the predictor variables of family environment, parenting styles and the moderator variables of family socio-economic status (parents’ education, parents’ occupation, family income and the type of family structure) and adolescents’ sex, age, with the criterion variable of well-being (measured in terms of adolescents’ self-esteem, level of functioning and academic achievement) was constructed. Three hundred and thirty eight (338) adolescents aged between 12 to 19 years from three bilingual schools in the Adamaoua and Centre provinces in Cameroon were included in the sample. Of these respondents, (56.8%) and (43.2%) were males and females respectively. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire battery. The Family Environment Scale (FES) was used as a measure of family environmental dimensions; Buri’s Parental Authority Questionnaire (PAQ) was used as a measure of parenting styles. In addition, the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ 12), the Hare Self-esteem Scale (HSES) and school grades were used as measures of adolescents’ well-being. Data analysis uncovered three parenting styles as perceived by the adolescents using z-scores. The findings reveal no age and sex differences on measures of well-being. Majority of the adolescents (41.1%) reported having authoritative parents followed by authoritarian parents (34.6%) and only (24.3%) of the respondents viewed their parents as permissive. The results of the factor analysis revealed family environmental dimensions similar to those described by Moos and Moos. These dimensions were labelled as factor 1: supportive dimension, factor 2: growth dimension and factor 3: organized dimension. Correlations between perceived family environmental factors, parenting styles and adolescents’ well-being were investigated. The results indicated positive correlation between permissive and authoritarian parenting styles with FES conflict (r=.11) and intellectual-orientation (r=.10) subscales respectively. Authoritative parenting style did not correlate with any dimension of the family environment despite being the main style used by parents as perceived by the adolescents. Authoritarian parenting style positively correlated with adolescents’ school self-esteem (r=.14) and general level of functioning(r=.14). Permissive parenting correlated with the three domains of adolescents’ self-esteem: home(r=.20), school(r=.21) and peer(r=.22) and their general level of functioning(r=.17). General functioning correlated with measures of self-esteem. There was negative correlation between authoritarian and authoritative parenting styles (r= -.20, p.05, level of functioning, R2 = .22, F (3, 334) = 2.47, p<0.5 and academic achievement, R2 = .029, F (3, 334) = 4.305, p<.005. Finally the FES organized dimension did not predict adolescents’ well-being. As for the parenting styles, the regression model which included parenting styles predicted peer self-esteem, R2 = .048, F (3, 334) = 5.65, p<.001, home self-esteem, R2 = .040, F (3, 334) = 4.58, p<.005, school self-esteem, R2 = .052, F (3, 334) = 6.15, p<.0005 and level of functioning, R2 = .045, F (3, 334) = 5.25, p<.001. The regression model did not show the effects of parenting styles on academic achievement. Moderator regression analyses were performed to test the moderating effects of family socioeconomic status and adolescents’ sex, age on the relation between family environment, parenting styles and adolescents’ well-being. The interactions of these moderator variables with FES supportive, growth, and organized dimensions and authoritative, authoritarian and permissive parenting styles were partially significant. Two sub scales of FES factor 2 with income were significant for adolescents’ level of functioning but not for the other two measures of well-being. Moderator regression of family income with FES factors 1 and 3 was not significant for adolescents’ well-being. Family income moderated the relation between authoritative and adolescents’ peer self-esteem. Authoritarian (β =.50) and permissive (β =-.63) parenting styles were the best predictors of adolescents’ academic achievement as compared to authoritative and their interactions with family income were statistically significant; authoritarian t(338) = 2.35, p<0.05, permissive t(338) = -2.22, p< 0.05. Parents’ education and occupation partially moderated the relation between the predicted variables and outcome variables. The interactions between the type of family structure and parenting styles and their relation with adolescents’ well-being were not statistically significant. As for adolescents’ sex and age, their interactions with FES (growth, supportive, organized) were not significant. Sex however, did not fully moderate the relation between parenting styles and adolescents’ well-being. Overall, the study has shown the validity of the ecological perspective in that certain factors contribute to adolescents’ well-being in Cameroon and the moderating effects of certain family SES on the relationship between family environment, parenting styles and adolescents’ well-being. Future studies should include both parents and adolescents’ views in assessing the social climate of the environment, parenting styles with a more rigorous hypotheses testing

Relationship Between Mothers' Parenting Styles, Muslim Adolescents' Personality, Self-Esteem and Academic Achievement

Previous research studies of parenting styles and self-esteem have been explored extensively in the context of the Western perspective. In Islamic perspective, mothers are considered as the first educators for their children. Thus, there is a need to investigate the impact of mothers’ parenting styles and Muslim adolescents’ personality in the Muslim orientation. Previous research studies of student academic achievement has been linked to self-esteem but nevertheless did not relate to parenting styles and personality among adolescent Muslims. Thus, this present study was designed to fill in the literature gaps that exist in this area. This study employed ex-post facto design. Generally, the purpose of this study was to propose a model of mothers’ parenting styles and adolescents’ factors. Specifically the model was estimated to measure the relationships between mothers’ parenting styles (authoritarian, authoritative and permissive), Muslim adolescents’ personality, self-esteem and academic achievement. The instruments adaptation in this study was designed quantitatively and distributed to a sample size of 360 students’ ages 15 years old (Form Three) from Islamic religious schools under the Selangor State Islamic Religious Department. The selections of schools were based on multistage cluster sampling. Using Structural Equation Modeling analysis, the study has to re-specify the hypothesized model due to any insignificance of relationships between authoritarian and permissive mothers’ parenting styles towards Muslim adolescents’ personality. The findings have revealed that authoritative mothers’ parenting style influenced the Muslim adolescents’ personality significantly. In addition, Muslim adolescents’ personality gave an impact to self-esteem. As a result, self-esteem will promote academic achievement among the Muslim adolescent students in the selected Islamic religious schools. The results have given implications to parents, counselors, teachers and policy makers. In addition, these findings will hopefully help to contribute to an extension of the literature reviews and methodology