The Relationship between Parenting Styles and Adolescents’ Social Anxiety in Migrant Families: A Study in Guangdong, China

Abstract

Previous studies indicated that parenting styles were important influencing factors for the development of children’s well-being. It is known that mass migration to the cities in China will affect family relations. However, few studies focused on the relationship between parenting styles and adolescents’ mental health in migrant families. Thus, this study aimed to investigate how parenting styles could affect adolescent’s social anxiety in migrant families. A total number of 1,345 adolescents in migrant families from four non-government-funded junior middle schools in Guangdong province formed the research sample. Parenting styles were measured using short-form of the Egna Minnen Beträffande Uppfostran, and social anxiety was evaluated using Social Anxiety Subscale of Self-Consciousness Scale. The results showed that emotional warmth, overprotection and rejection were significantly more often perceived from mothers than from fathers. Significant group differences between high social anxiety group and low social anxiety group were found in both father’s rearing styles and mother’s rearing styles. Furthermore, in migrant families, paternal emotional warmth could decrease adolescents’ social anxiety, whereas maternal overprotection could increase it.

Parental Socialization, Social Anxiety, and School Victimization: A Mediation Model

“…The observed mediation process is very new and interesting because it suggests that the characteristics of parental socialization, in terms of acceptance and involvement as well as strictness and imposition, influence school victimization, mainly because they previously influence their response in the social interaction of adolescents. Our findings could suggest that adolescents' perceptions of the socialization practices used by their parents not only influence the appearance, development, and maintenance of social anxiety [27,34,60], but also their relationships with their peers in the classroom, which would be an extension of the family system.…”

“…It is well known that certain parental attitudes and behavior patterns seem to be largely associated with the manifestation of difficulties in the adjustment and social competence of their children [32][33][34]. In this sense, recent research confirms the positive role played by parental acceptance and affection in the social adjustment of their children [35].…”

Sağlık Hizmetleri Meslek Yüksekokulu Öğrencilerinin Sosyal Kaygıları ve Genel Öz-Yeterlik Algılarının Çeşitli Değişkenler Açısından İncelenmesi

“…Anne babanın çocuğa yönelik tutarsız ve samimiyetsiz davranışları da onun sosyal kaygı yaşamasında önemli bir etken olmaktadır (Mehtalia & Vankar, 2004). Sosyal kaygının düzeyinin bireyin yetiştiği ailede duygusal yakınlık derecesi arttıkça azaldığı da yapılan bir diğer çalışmada belirlenmiştir (Xu, Ni, Ran & Zhang, 2017). Ayrıca ebeveynleri sosyal kaygı taşıyan bireylerin sosyal kaygı düzeylerinin diğer bireylere oranla daha yüksek olduğu görülmektedir (Festa & Ginsburg, 2011).…”

The moderating role of COMT Val158Met polymorphism in the relation between maternal rearing style and loneliness: implications for mental health

“…For example, mothers spend considerably more time socializing children compared to men (Yeung et al, 2001). Also, Xu et al (2017) found that emotional warmth, overprotection and rejection were significantly more often perceived from mothers than from fathers. So, the current study focuses on maternal rearing style and expects that maternal rearing style is related to loneliness.…”