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Bidirectional Relations Between Parenting and Behavior Problems From Age 8 to 13 in Nine Countries
Author(s) -
Lansford Jennifer E.,
Rothenberg W. Andrew,
Jensen Todd M.,
Lippold Melissa A.,
Bacchini Dario,
Bornstein Marc H.,
Chang Lei,
DeaterDeckard Kirby,
Di Giunta Laura,
Dodge Kenneth A.,
Malone Patrick S.,
Oburu Paul,
Pastorelli Concetta,
Skinner Ann T.,
Sorbring Emma,
Steinberg Laurence,
Tapanya Sombat,
Uribe Tirado Liliana Maria,
Alampay Liane Peña,
AlHassan Suha M.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/jora.12381
Subject(s) - generalizability theory , psychology , developmental psychology , structural equation modeling , externalization , parenting styles , social psychology , statistics , mathematics
This study used data from 12 cultural groups in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States; N = 1,298) to understand the cross‐cultural generalizability of how parental warmth and control are bidirectionally related to externalizing and internalizing behaviors from childhood to early adolescence. Mothers, fathers, and children completed measures when children were ages 8–13. Multiple‐group autoregressive, cross‐lagged structural equation models revealed that child effects rather than parent effects may better characterize how warmth and control are related to child externalizing and internalizing behaviors over time, and that parent effects may be more characteristic of relations between parental warmth and control and child externalizing and internalizing behavior during childhood than early adolescence.