Associations of parenting dimensions and styles with externalizing problems of children and adolescents: An updated meta-analysis

Author: Pinquart, M.

Description: 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.

Subject headings: Adolescent; Adolescent Behavior/psychology; Adult; Child; Child Behavior/psychology; Child Behavior Disorders/psychology; Humans; Parent-Child Relations; Parenting/psychology

Publication year: 2017

Journal or book title: Developmental Psychology

Volume: 53

Issue: 5

Pages: 873-932

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Type: Journal Article

Serial number: 2989