The Relationship between Parenting Style and Children’s Adjustment: The Parent’s Perspective
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2000
Keywords
parenting style, authoritative, authoritarian, adjustment, competence
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009475122883
Abstract
We examined the relationship between authoritative and authoritarian parenting styles and socio-emotional adjustment in elementary school children as reported from the parents' perspective. Mothers of first through fifth graders provided information about parenting style as well as children's competencies and problem behaviors. Teachers provided ratings of children's adjustment for a subset of the participants. Results indicated that authoritative parenting was associated negatively with parent- and teacher-rated maladaptive behavior, and positively with indicators of healthy adjustment. Correlations between authoritarian parenting and adjustment were either small or non-significant. Regression analyses indicated that authoritative parenting was more predictive of children's competence than maladaptation (22% versus 10% of variance). The effects of parenting style on adjustment were not moderated by demographic variables, such as the child's gender, grade level, ethnicity, and family income.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journal of Child and Family Studies, v. 9, issue 2, p. 231-245
Scholar Commons Citation
Kauffman, Dagmar; Gesten, Ellis L.; Santa Lucia, Raymond A.; Salcedo, Octavio; Gobioff, Gianna Rendina; and Gadd, Ray, "The Relationship between Parenting Style and Children’s Adjustment: The Parent’s Perspective" (2000). Psychology Faculty Publications. 1448.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/1448
