Exploring Parenting Styles Patterns and Children’s Socio-Emotional Skills

In this study, we adopted parenting styles as a multidimensional and latent construct that includes different aspects of parenting, rather than solely focusing on a single parenting style. In a Web-based survey with 1203 Greek parents, we identified parenting styles and their SDQ reports on their ch...

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Main Authors: Aikaterini Vasiou, Wassilis Kassis, Anastasia Krasanaki, Dilan Aksoy, Céline Anne Favre, Spyridon Tantaros
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Published: MDPI AG 2023-06-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/10/7/1126
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author Aikaterini Vasiou
Wassilis Kassis
Anastasia Krasanaki
Dilan Aksoy
Céline Anne Favre
Spyridon Tantaros
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description In this study, we adopted parenting styles as a multidimensional and latent construct that includes different aspects of parenting, rather than solely focusing on a single parenting style. In a Web-based survey with 1203 Greek parents, we identified parenting styles and their SDQ reports on their children. According to our results by Latent Profile Analysis, we must use a more complex approach concerning parenting styles. We identified a “Highly Authoritative style” profile with high levels of authoritative, low levels of authoritarian and middle levels of permissive parenting styles. We additionally identified a profile called “Relaxed Authoritative style”, with still high but lower levels of authoritative style, low but slightly heightened levels of authoritarian style, and middle levels of permissive style. A further profile, named “Permissive Focused Authoritative style”, had a mix of high levels of authoritative, moderate levels of permissive, and elevated levels of authoritarian parenting styles. Finally, in a profile named “Inconsistent Parenting style”, we identified parents with a blend of still high, but the lowest of all four levels of authoritative and highest levels of permissive and authoritarian parenting styles. When combining the four identified parenting patterns with the SDQ results, we identified the “highly authoritative parenting style” profile to be the least connected to internalizing or externalizing problems of the respective children.
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spelling doaj.art-0af3b06465be4d0290528937efcc30ef2023-11-18T18:48:33ZengMDPI AGChildren2227-90672023-06-01107112610.3390/children10071126Exploring Parenting Styles Patterns and Children’s Socio-Emotional SkillsAikaterini Vasiou0Wassilis Kassis1Anastasia Krasanaki2Dilan Aksoy3Céline Anne Favre4Spyridon Tantaros5Department of Primary Education, University of Crete, 74100 Rethymno, GreeceDepartment of Research & Development, School of Education, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, 5210 Windisch, SwitzerlandSchool of Humanities, Hellenic Open University, 26335 Patras, GreeceDepartment of Research & Development, School of Education, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, 5210 Windisch, SwitzerlandDepartment of Research & Development, School of Education, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, 5210 Windisch, SwitzerlandDepartment of Psychology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15784 Athens, GreeceIn this study, we adopted parenting styles as a multidimensional and latent construct that includes different aspects of parenting, rather than solely focusing on a single parenting style. In a Web-based survey with 1203 Greek parents, we identified parenting styles and their SDQ reports on their children. According to our results by Latent Profile Analysis, we must use a more complex approach concerning parenting styles. We identified a “Highly Authoritative style” profile with high levels of authoritative, low levels of authoritarian and middle levels of permissive parenting styles. We additionally identified a profile called “Relaxed Authoritative style”, with still high but lower levels of authoritative style, low but slightly heightened levels of authoritarian style, and middle levels of permissive style. A further profile, named “Permissive Focused Authoritative style”, had a mix of high levels of authoritative, moderate levels of permissive, and elevated levels of authoritarian parenting styles. Finally, in a profile named “Inconsistent Parenting style”, we identified parents with a blend of still high, but the lowest of all four levels of authoritative and highest levels of permissive and authoritarian parenting styles. When combining the four identified parenting patterns with the SDQ results, we identified the “highly authoritative parenting style” profile to be the least connected to internalizing or externalizing problems of the respective children.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/10/7/1126parenting stylesSDQlatent profile analysisexternalizing behavior problemsinternalizing behavior problemsprosocial behavior
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Wassilis Kassis
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Exploring Parenting Styles Patterns and Children’s Socio-Emotional Skills
Children
parenting styles
SDQ
latent profile analysis
externalizing behavior problems
internalizing behavior problems
prosocial behavior
title Exploring Parenting Styles Patterns and Children’s Socio-Emotional Skills
title_full Exploring Parenting Styles Patterns and Children’s Socio-Emotional Skills
title_fullStr Exploring Parenting Styles Patterns and Children’s Socio-Emotional Skills
title_full_unstemmed Exploring Parenting Styles Patterns and Children’s Socio-Emotional Skills
title_short Exploring Parenting Styles Patterns and Children’s Socio-Emotional Skills
title_sort exploring parenting styles patterns and children s socio emotional skills
topic parenting styles
SDQ
latent profile analysis
externalizing behavior problems
internalizing behavior problems
prosocial behavior
url https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/10/7/1126
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