2022
DOI: 10.1007/s10826-022-02361-7
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Paternal Positivity and Child Mental Health: A Meta-Analysis

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“…These parents emphasized the importance of validating their child's emotions through listening with empathy, understanding, and respect, as well as using their child's emotional experiences as opportunities for nurturing intimacy and teaching coping skills and problem-solving. Both of these themes are consistent with Gottman and colleagues' (1996) parenting endorses (e.g., Okorn et al, 2022), and such maternal and paternal behaviors are largely positive in terms of their correlates with child outcomes (Smith et al, 2000;Foster et al, 2022).…”
Section: The Meaning Of 'Gentle Parenting' According To Gentle Parentssupporting
confidence: 81%
“…These parents emphasized the importance of validating their child's emotions through listening with empathy, understanding, and respect, as well as using their child's emotional experiences as opportunities for nurturing intimacy and teaching coping skills and problem-solving. Both of these themes are consistent with Gottman and colleagues' (1996) parenting endorses (e.g., Okorn et al, 2022), and such maternal and paternal behaviors are largely positive in terms of their correlates with child outcomes (Smith et al, 2000;Foster et al, 2022).…”
Section: The Meaning Of 'Gentle Parenting' According To Gentle Parentssupporting
confidence: 81%
“…A third theme mentioned by around a quarter of gentle parents focused on showing physical and/or emotional affection to their child. These descriptions of hugging their child and being loving, kind, and warm are consistent with what positive parenting endorses [e.g., 40 ], and such maternal and paternal behaviors are largely positive in terms of their correlates with child outcomes [ 41 , 42 ].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 70%
“…With respect to other parental variables (i.e., parental inconsistency and positive parenting) ndings were consistent with the literature. In general, negative parenting practices were associated with more problematic trajectories in boys and girls (Foster et al, 2022;Shaw, 2013), this echoing studies in which such risk factors were found to be similar across genders (Barker & Maughan, 2009). Positive parenting was not associated with the most problematic trajectories (i.e., stable high in girls and upward in boys) in either gender.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 49%