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Parenting Practices, Child Adjustment, and Family Diversity
Author(s) -
Amato Paul R.,
Fowler Frieda
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of marriage and family
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 159
eISSN - 1741-3737
pISSN - 0022-2445
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2002.00703.x
Subject(s) - ethnic group , psychology , developmental psychology , deviance (statistics) , stepfamily , generality , child rearing , diversity (politics) , child discipline , national survey of family growth , socioeconomic status , human factors and ergonomics , population , poison control , demography , medicine , research methodology , sociology , family planning , statistics , mathematics , environmental health , psychotherapist , anthropology
The authors used data from Waves 1 and 2 of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) to test the generality of the links between parenting practices and child outcomes for children in two age groups: 5–11 and 12–18. Parents' reports of support, monitoring, and harsh punishment were associated in the expected direction with parents' reports of children's adjustment, school grades, and behavior problems in Wave 1 and with children's reports of self‐esteem, grades, and deviance in Wave 2. With a few exceptions, parenting practices did not interact with parents' race, ethnicity, family structure, education, income, or gender in predicting child outcomes. A core of common parenting practices appears to be linked with positive outcomes for children across diverse family contexts.