Indulgent Parenting, Helicopter Parenting, and Well-being of Parents and Emerging Adults

Cui, Ming; Darling, Carol A.; Coccia, Catherine; Fincham, Frank D.; May, Ross W.

doi:10.1007/s10826-018-01314-3

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“…However, a high level of maternal indulgence in both the relational and material areas was found to be associated with the EA reporting poorer self‐regulatory capacity and increased anxiety, depressive symptoms, and alcohol use. In a subsequent study with EA ( n = 449), and their parents Cui et al (2019) were able to demonstrate that EA perceptions of indulgent parenting in adolescence were positively associated with helicopter parenting that persisted into early adulthood and that this was also associated with elevated dysregulation, anxiety, and depressive symptoms in the EA.…”

Section: The Emerging Adultmentioning

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Differentiation of Self and Mental Health Symptoms in Emerging Adulthood in Australia: The Role of Parenting Behaviours

Piteo

MacKay

2021

ANZ J of Family Therapy

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To date, limited research has been undertaken regarding the interplay between differentiation of self (DoS), parental involvement, and the prevalence of psychological symptoms in emerging adults (EA) aged between 18 and 25 years in Australia. The current study aims to assess whether there is an association between mental health symptoms, perceptions of parental warmth, involvement, and autonomy support and indicators of DoS, including self‐regulation capacity and emotional reactivity. In a study of 129 undergraduate students aged between 18 and 30 years, greater DoS, involving both lower emotional reactivity and the ability to take an ‘I position’ in relation to others, was found to be associated with fewer depressive and anxiety symptoms in EA. In addition, EA who demonstrated lower levels of emotional reactivity (higher DoS) had lower scores in depressive and anxiety symptoms. Parenting variables of caregiver warmth and autonomy granting were also found to be related to lower depressive and anxiety symptoms as well as greater DoS in EA. Regression models show that there were main effects for DoS on depressive symptoms; however, parenting behaviours were not found to moderate this relationship. Overall, this research is important as it supports Bowen’s (1978) theorising in relation to the relationship between DoS and mental health, and consideration of the contribution of parenting variables to indicators of well‐being in EA. In this, family therapy has a role in educating both young adults and their parents in how best to promote independence and autonomy for improved psychological health. Further research should focus on the complexity of parenting controlling behaviours on mental health symptoms in EA.

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Section: The Emerging Adultmentioning

confidence: 93%

Differentiation of Self and Mental Health Symptoms in Emerging Adulthood in Australia: The Role of Parenting Behaviours

Piteo

MacKay

2021

ANZ J of Family Therapy

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“…They have warmth and accept what it is, but their warmth tends to indulge (Jinnah & Stoneman, 2016;Cui, et al, 2019). Meanwhile, accepting what is will tends to give freedom to children to do everything.…”

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Anxious-Preoccupied Attachment to Father: Does Permissive Parenting Contributed?

Fatmawati¹,

Maryam

2020

equality

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In fact, parents nowadays tend to liberate their children more in everything. That is because parents –especially fathers, spend more time working, so in the end children get less attention. These actions that the parent takes are related to the use of permissive parenting. Children with low attention level (permissive parenting) from their fathers are predicting to have an insecure attachment, including anxious-preoccupied attachment. To that end, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between permissive parenting and anxious-preoccupied attachment to fathers among adolescents in Pidie-Aceh, Indonesia. This study used a purposive sampling technique with a total sample of 200 teenagers. Data collection techniques were performed by using permissive parenting scale and anxious-preoccupied attachment to father scale. The Pearson correlation test results showed that permissive parenting was positively related to anxious-preoccupied attachment to fathers (r count = 0.122; p = 0.042). The analysis proved that permissive parenting was significantly related to adolescents’ attachment to their fathers.

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“…More recently, how ever, con cerns have emerged as to whether some moth ers may be spend ing too muchtimecare giv ing (Milkieetal.2015;Nelson 2010;NomaguchiandMilkie2020). Numerousstud ieshaveiden ti fiedpoten tiallyharm fuleffectsofamother'soverinvolve-ADVANCE PUBLICATION ment, includ ing reduced time for employ ment, resul tant socio eco nomic inequalities, and ham pered psy cho so cial well-being of both the mother and child (Cui et al 2019;Givertz and Segrin, 2014;LeMoyne and Buchanan 2011;Lockeetal.2012). This shift in research focus reflects the real i za tion that despite mod ern moth ers' greater time invest mentinpaidwork,theyaredevot ingmore time to care giv ing, espe cially to childcen tered, time-inten sive activ i ties-such as read ing, teach ing, or feed ing-that pro mote chil dren's healthy devel op ment (Gauthier et al 2004;Sayer, Bianchi, and Robinson 2004;Sayer, Gauthier, and Furstenberg 2004).…”

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Trends in Mothers' Parenting Time by Education and Work From 2003 to 2017

Prickett

Augustine

2021

Demography

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Scholars have been increasingly concerned about the rise in “intensive mothering” and its implications for the well-being of children and women and for inequality more broadly. These concerns, however, reflect a key assumption: that socioeconomic disparities in mothers' parenting time observed in earlier eras have continued to grow. Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) from 2003–2005 and 2015–2017 (n = 13,755), we test this assumption by examining whether maternal education gaps in active time spent with children have persisted across the 2000s. We pay particular attention to the continued socioeconomic bifurcation in women's access to full-time stable work, assessing whether changes in the education-related time gap are due to changes in who works and how much. We find that the gap in active childcare time between mothers with a college degree and those without has closed dramatically. Although some of this narrowing was driven by declines in time among college-educated mothers, most was driven by increases among mothers with less education. These trends, however, are observed only among mothers who were not employed full-time. Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analyses further reveal that although most of the increase in active care time among nonworking mothers with less education was attributable to behavioral change, 58% of the decline among nonworking, college-educated mothers was a result of sociodemographic compositional changes. These findings illuminate population-level trends in mothers' active parenting time, provide insights into the driving factors, and help update theories, qualitative findings, and policy considerations related to mothers' and children's well-being.

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Indulgent Parenting, Helicopter Parenting, and Well-being of Parents and Emerging Adults

Cited by 57 publications

References 38 publications

Differentiation of Self and Mental Health Symptoms in Emerging Adulthood in Australia: The Role of Parenting Behaviours

Differentiation of Self and Mental Health Symptoms in Emerging Adulthood in Australia: The Role of Parenting Behaviours

Anxious-Preoccupied Attachment to Father: Does Permissive Parenting Contributed?

Trends in Mothers' Parenting Time by Education and Work From 2003 to 2017

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