Childhood adjustment: the effects of parenting styles on mood states

Authors

  • Inmaculada Montoya-Castilla Departamento de Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamientos Psicológicos Universitat de Valencia, España.
  • Vicente Prado-Gascó Departamento de Psicología Social. Universidad Europea de Valencia
  • Lidón Villanueva-Badenes
  • Remedios González-Barrón Departamento de Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamientos Psicológicos Universitat de Valencia, España.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5944/ap.13.2.17807

Keywords:

adjustment, parenting styles, emotional development, maladaptation

Agencies:

Esta investigación ha sido realizada gracias al apoyo del Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Proyectos PSI2010-18742 y PSI2013-43943-R) y la Consellería de Educació de la Generalitat Valenciana (PROMETEO/2011/009).

Abstract

Children’s adjustment refers to personal, social and family stressors that children have to adapt to. Ad­justment is related to personal and family aspects that have influence on children’s development. Emotional outcomes and parenting styles that par­ents use to ed­ucate their children are two of those aspects. This study examines parenting styles and emotional out­comes in predicting children’s ad­justment. The sam­ple consists of 1165 children between 8 and 12 years from primary schools of Valencia. Participants com­pleted the Scales Identi­fication of "Family Educa­tional Practices", The Mood Questionnaire and The Multifactorial Child­hood Self-Reported Adjustment Test. The respec­tive authorities and their parents ap­proved the study. Data were statistically analysed using t-test, bivariate correlations and hierarchical re­gressions. Results indicated that boys score higher on author­itative parenting, maladaptation at school as well as social and general maladaptation. Girls score higher on democratic parenting and fear. Parenting styles are related to emotional outcomes and to­gether they predict children’s adjustment (30 % of the vari­ance). Theses findings reveal that parenting styles have a strong effect on children’s adjust­ment, espe­cially regarding school and social life. Moreover, emotional outcomes are better predictor of children’s maladaptation than parenting styles. 

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Published

2016-12-01

How to Cite

Montoya-Castilla, I., Prado-Gascó, V., Villanueva-Badenes, L., & González-Barrón, R. (2016). Childhood adjustment: the effects of parenting styles on mood states. Acción Psicológica, 13(2), 15–30. https://doi.org/10.5944/ap.13.2.17807

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Artículos del monográfico [Monograph´s articles]