Associations of Parenting Dimensions and Styles With Externalizing Problems of Children and Adolescents: An Updated Meta-Analysis

The present meta-analysis integrates research from 1,435 studies on associations of parenting dimensions and styles with externalizing symptoms in children and adolescents. Parental warmth, behavioral control, autonomy granting, and an authoritative parenting style showed very small to small negativ...

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Published in:Developmental psychology 2017-05, Vol.53 (5), p.873-932
Main Author: Pinquart, Martin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior - psychology
Adolescent Development
Adolescents
Adult
Affective Behavior
Age Differences
Aggression
Associations
Authoritative Parenting
Autonomy
Behavior
Behavior Change
Behavior Problems
Bidirectionality
Child
Child Behavior - psychology
Child Behavior Disorders - psychology
Child Neglect
Childhood Development
Children
Children & youth
Control
Correlation
Delinquency
Evaluation Methods
Externalization
Externalizing problems
Female
Human
Humans
Literature Reviews
Male
Meta Analysis
Parent Child Relations
Parent Child Relationship
Parental control
Parenting - psychology
Parenting Style
Parenting Styles
Parents & parenting
Permissive Parenting
Personal Autonomy
Prediction
Sampling
Statistical Analysis
Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Systematic review
Teenagers
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Summary:The present meta-analysis integrates research from 1,435 studies on associations of parenting dimensions and styles with externalizing symptoms in children and adolescents. Parental warmth, behavioral control, autonomy granting, and an authoritative parenting style showed very small to small negative concurrent and longitudinal associations with externalizing problems. In contrast, harsh control, psychological control, authoritarian, permissive, and neglectful parenting were associated with higher levels of externalizing problems. The strongest associations were observed for harsh control and psychological control. Parental warmth, behavioral control, harsh control, psychological control, autonomy granting, authoritative, and permissive parenting predicted change in externalizing problems over time, with associations of externalizing problems with warmth, behavioral control, harsh control, psychological control, and authoritative parenting being bidirectional. Moderating effects of sampling, child's age, form of externalizing problems, rater of parenting and externalizing problems, quality of measures, and publication status were identified. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.
ISSN:0012-1649
1939-0599
DOI:10.1037/dev0000295