1. Parenting and trajectories of children's maladaptive behaviors: a 12-year prospective community study.
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Luyckx K, Tildesley EA, Soenens B, Andrews JA, Hampson SE, Peterson M, and Duriez B
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- Adolescent, Age Factors, Alcohol Drinking psychology, Antisocial Personality Disorder psychology, Checklist, Child, Child Development, Depression psychology, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Oregon, Sex Factors, Smoking psychology, Surveys and Questionnaires, Child Behavior psychology, Parenting psychology
- Abstract
This study investigated how parenting accounted for interindividual differences in developmental trajectories of different child behaviors across childhood and adolescence. In a cohort sequential community sample of 1,049 children, latent class growth analysis was applied to three parent-reported dimensions (monitoring, positive parenting, inconsistent discipline) across 12 annual assessments (ages 6-18). Four longitudinal parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, uninvolved) were differentiated on the basis of levels and rates of change in the constituent parenting dimensions. Multigroup analyses demonstrated that these parenting styles were differentially related to changes in parent- and child-reported measures of children's alcohol and cigarette use, antisocial behavior, and internalizing symptoms, with the authoritative parenting class being related to the most optimal long-term development.
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- 2011
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