Authoritarian parenting attitudes as a risk for conduct problems

Thompson, A.; Hollis, Chris; Richards, David P.

doi:10.1007/s00787-003-0324-4

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“…An analysis of the 1970 British national cohort accounted for these methodological constraints, and found that maternal authoritarian attitudes predicted conduct problems in children, independently of socio-economic status and maternal psychopathology [30]. In a retrospective descriptive survey, adults who reported having been slapped or spanked as children in Canada had a significantly higher prevalence of psychiatric disorders than those who had not [16].…”

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Relationship between parental psychopathology, parenting strategies and child mental health

Vostanis

Graves

Meltzer

et al. 2006

Soc Psychiat Epidemiol

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Background: Parental and child psychiatric disorders have been found to be associated, and this association can be mediated by other psychosocial variables, including parenting attitudes and strategies. As most previous studies included clinical samples, the purpose of this study was to establish the relationship between parental psychopathology and parenting strategies with child psychiatric disorders in a national survey population. Methods:The sample included 10,438 children of 5-15 years and their parents, from representative UK households. Families were assessed on child psychiatric diagnosis, parental psychopathology, family functioning, and socioeconomic status. Parenting strategies included using rewards, physical and non-physical punishments towards their child. Findings:Parental psychopathology scores (OR 3.99, 95% CI 3.13-5.09) and nonphysical punishment (OR 1.50, 95% CI 1.27-1.76) were associated with child psychiatric disorders. This association was particularly prominent among children with conduct disorders: parental psychopathology scores (OR 3.13, 95% CI 2.28-4.30) and non-physical punishment (OR 3.19, 95% CI 2.55-3.97). Absence of child psychopathology was associated with a combination of rewarding and non-punitive parenting strategies. Conclusions:Although parents in the general population may be using less physical strategies than in the past, non-physical punishment is strongly related to mental health problems in children. Enhancement of positive parenting through universal and targeted interventions is an important preventive strategy.

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confidence: 99%

Relationship between parental psychopathology, parenting strategies and child mental health

Vostanis

Graves

Meltzer

et al. 2006

Soc Psychiat Epidemiol

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“…Maccoby & Martin, 1983) have linked parenting style with a host of child outcomes including personality, educational achievement, and psychopathology. For example, authoritarian parenting (a strict, punitive parenting style, characterized by expectations of conformity and compliance) is associated with offspring conduct problems (Thompson, Hollis & Richards, 2003), whereas a parenting style comprising parental warmth and positive expressivity is associated with effortful control and reduced externalizing problems in children (Eisenberg et al, 2005).When considering relationships between parenting and child outcomes the direction-of-effect is often conceptualised as running from parent to child. However, Bell (1968; and others (Belsky, 1984;Schneewind, 1989) have highlighted the existence of child-to-parent effects, whereby child behavior may impact upon the parenting that they receive just as parenting can impact child behavior.…”

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Accounting for genetic and environmental confounds in associations between parent and child characteristics: A systematic review of children-of-twins studies.

McAdams

Neiderhiser

Rijsdijk

et al. 2014

Psychological Bulletin

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Parental psychopathology, parenting style, and the quality of intra-familial relationships are all associated with child mental health outcomes. However, most research can say little about the causal pathways underlying these associations. This is because most studies are not genetically informative and are therefore not able to account for the possibility that associations are confounded by gene-environment correlation. That is, biological parents provide not only a rearing environment for their child but also contribute 50% of their genes. Any associations between parental phenotype and child phenotype are therefore potentially confounded. One technique for disentangling genetic from environmental effects is the Children-of-Twins (CoT) method. This involves using datasets comprising twin parents and their children to distinguish genetic from environmental associations between parent and child phenotypes. The CoT technique has grown in popularity in the last decade and we predict that this surge in popularity will continue. In the present article we explain the CoT method for those unfamiliar with its use. We present the logic underlying this approach, discuss strengths and weaknesses and highlight important methodological considerations for researchers interested in the CoT method. We also cover variations on basic CoT approaches, including the extended-CoT method, capable of distinguishing forms of geneenvironment correlation. We then present a systematic review of all of the behavioral CoT studies published to date. These studies cover such diverse phenotypes as psychosis, substance abuse, internalizing, externalizing, parenting and marital difficulties. In reviewing this literature we highlight past applications, identify emergent patterns, and suggest avenues for future research.Keywords: children-of-twins; gene-environment correlation; intergenerational transmission; parenting; psychiatric epidemiology.Theories of parenting propose that parents impact the development of their children in a variety of ways: At one level parental characteristics are predictive of child characteristics -many traits tend to run in families and this is often interpreted as evidence for the impact of parent behavior on child development. For example, anxious parents often rear anxious children (Murray et al., 2008) and it has been suggested that this is because children learn such behavior from their parents (Murray et al., 2008;Rachman, 1977;. Proponents of social learning theory (Bandura, 1977) might suggest that this learning occurs via processes of imitation and modelling, and evidence also indicates that the learning process can be more direct and involve the verbal transmission of information from parent to child (Field & Purkis, 2011).Although children may learn behaviors through imitating and listening to their parents, parents often seek to influence their children's behavior in more direct ways, through the parenting behaviors that they direct towards their child. For example, the punishment and praise of chil...

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“…A comprehensive body of research indicates "children who are raised in authoritative homes score higher than their peers from authoritarian, neglectful, and permissive homes on a wide variety of measures of competence, achievement, social development, self-perceptions and mental health" (Steinberg et al, 1994). In regard to general competency and ability, research on adolescent adjustment indicates that there are clear advantages for people who were raised in authoritative homes, clear disadvantages for people raised in neglectful homes and mixed outcomes for people from authoritarian and permissive households (Lamborn et al, 1991;Thompson, Hollis and Richards, 2003). However, beyond the broad range of positive outcomes associated with parental warmth and responsive expectations, we argue that authoritative parenting style also extends to entrepreneurial intentions later in life.…”

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Raising entrepreneurs: can parenting style amplify entrepreneurial intentions and behaviours?

Jiang

Hayward

Morris

2017

IJMED

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For years, family business researchers have argued that many areas of entrepreneurship research have unnaturally separated the social institutions of family and business, calling for more exploration of the pervasive effects of family on entrepreneurship. Recent research has started to explore these effects within a family business context, but scholars still do not know much about how other family environments influence entrepreneurship. Using a family systems theoretical perspective, this conceptual paper addresses how developmental aspects of parenting and family environments, both inside and outside a family business context, contribute to the expression of entrepreneurial intentions and behaviours in adulthood. The most theoretically novel aspects of this paper focus on how family business contexts amplify links between entrepreneurial intentions and behaviours.

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Authoritarian parenting attitudes as a risk for conduct problems

Cited by 110 publications

References 17 publications

Relationship between parental psychopathology, parenting strategies and child mental health

Relationship between parental psychopathology, parenting strategies and child mental health

Accounting for genetic and environmental confounds in associations between parent and child characteristics: A systematic review of children-of-twins studies.

Raising entrepreneurs: can parenting style amplify entrepreneurial intentions and behaviours?

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