Parenting - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Associations between parenting styles and teen driving, safety-related behaviors and attitudes.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: The goal was to explore the association between parenting style and driving behaviors. METHODS: The 2006 National Young Driver Survey gathered data on driving safety behaviors from a nationally representative sample of 5665 ninth-, 10th-, ... Read more...

Patterns of home leaving and subjective well-being in emerging adulthood: the role of motivational processes and parental autonomy support.

30 Aug 2009 In Western, postindustrial societies, the timing of home leaving is increasingly delayed. The diversity of home-leaving patterns, resulting from this evolution, has not yet been systematically studied from a psychological perspective. In this study, ... Read more...

A prospective three generational study of fathers' constructive parenting: influences from family of origin, adolescent adjustment, and offspring temperament.

30 Aug 2009 This prospective, intergenerational study considered multiple influences on 102 fathers' constructive parenting of 181 children. Fathers in the 2nd generation (G2) were recruited as boys on the basis of neighborhood risk for delinquency and assessed ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Parenting - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Associations between parenting styles and teen driving, safety-related behaviors and attitudes. 29 Sep 2009
• Patterns of home leaving and subjective well-being in emerging adulthood: the role of motivational processes and parental autonomy support. 30 Aug 2009
• A prospective three generational study of fathers' constructive parenting: influences from family of origin, adolescent adjustment, and offspring temperament. 30 Aug 2009
• Intergenerational continuity in parenting behavior: mediating pathways and child effects. 30 Aug 2009
• Intergenerational continuity in parenting quality: the mediating role of social competence. 30 Aug 2009
• Validation of a new self-report measure of parental attributions. 30 Aug 2009
• Family functioning and maternal distress in adolescent girls with anorexia nervosa. 30 Aug 2009
• Interventional use of the parent-child interaction assessment-II enactments: modifying an abused mother's attributions to her son. 30 Aug 2009
• [Play: the foundation of life. Child play as the motor of personality development] 30 Aug 2009
• Adolescent dispositions for antisocial behavior in context: the roles of neighborhood dangerousness and parental knowledge. 30 Jul 2009
• A latent class analysis of maternal depressive symptoms over 12 years and offspring adjustment in adolescence. 30 Jul 2009
• Parental mediation, online activities, and cyberbullying. 30 Jul 2009
• Iatrogenic effect of juvenile justice. 30 Jul 2009
• Are some children harder to coparent than others? Children's negative emotionality and coparenting relationship quality. 30 Jul 2009
• Sibling relationship, family, and genetic factors in sibling similarity in sexual risk. 30 Jul 2009
• Sibling relationship quality moderates the associations between parental interventions and siblings' independent conflict strategies and outcomes. 30 Jul 2009
• The fit between stress appraisal and dyadic coping in understanding perceived coping effectiveness for adolescents with type 1 diabetes. 30 Jul 2009
• Mind your own business! Longitudinal relations between perceived privacy invasion and adolescent-parent conflict. 30 Jul 2009
• Parent, family, and child characteristics: associations with mother- and father-reported emotion socialization practices. 30 Jul 2009
• Strategies used by parents of twins to obtain sleep. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Parenting'

Definition: Performing the role of a parent by care-giving, nurturance, and protection of the child by a natural or substitute parent. The parent supports the child by exercising authority and through consistent, empathic, appropriate behavior in response to the child's needs. PARENTING differs from CHILD REARING in that in child rearing the emphasis is on the act of training or bringing up the children and the interaction between the parent and child, while parenting emphasizes the responsibility and qualities of exemplary behavior of the parent.

Descriptor UI: D016487

Alternative terms: Parenting;

Related Mesh Headings: Child Rearing;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology; history; psychology; trends;

Tree Number: F01.829.263.370.310;

History Note: 92

Technical Notes: differentiate from CHILD REARING which emphasizes the upbringing while PARENTING emphasizes the role of the parent: read MeSH definitions but if in doubt use term of author