Parenting has short and long-term effects in various spheres of children’s development, even though the causal connections between determinants of parenting, quality of parental behaviour and child’s psychological well-being are still not clear (Collins et al., 2000; O’Connor, 2002; Bornstein & Bornstein, 2007). The main goals of this study are: 1) to describe patterns of parenting practices within the area of maternal social and didactic caregiving (Bornstein, 1989); 2) to describe the distribution of maternal parenting practices patterns by children’s age and gender and by mother’s age and socioeconomic and cultural level. The empirical study has been conducted with a normative sample of 211 Italian mothers with a child aged between 7 and 11, with a homogeneous gender distribution. Data were collected by means of self-report questionnaire on parental practices. Factor analysis and subsequent cluster analysis permitted identification of three types of maternal parenting practices patterns defined as responsive (30.0%), ambivalent (45.4%), and coercive/rejecting (24.6%). Results show a higher presence of dysfunctional parental clusters for mothers with a medium-to-high educational level and with male children.

Maternal parenting practices in school age: a study about social and didacting caregiving

ARACE, Angelica;SCARZELLO, DONATELLA
2010-01-01

Abstract

Parenting has short and long-term effects in various spheres of children’s development, even though the causal connections between determinants of parenting, quality of parental behaviour and child’s psychological well-being are still not clear (Collins et al., 2000; O’Connor, 2002; Bornstein & Bornstein, 2007). The main goals of this study are: 1) to describe patterns of parenting practices within the area of maternal social and didactic caregiving (Bornstein, 1989); 2) to describe the distribution of maternal parenting practices patterns by children’s age and gender and by mother’s age and socioeconomic and cultural level. The empirical study has been conducted with a normative sample of 211 Italian mothers with a child aged between 7 and 11, with a homogeneous gender distribution. Data were collected by means of self-report questionnaire on parental practices. Factor analysis and subsequent cluster analysis permitted identification of three types of maternal parenting practices patterns defined as responsive (30.0%), ambivalent (45.4%), and coercive/rejecting (24.6%). Results show a higher presence of dysfunctional parental clusters for mothers with a medium-to-high educational level and with male children.
2010
XXII, 1(1)
149
157
Parenting practices; maternal social caregiving; maternal didacting caregiving; determinants of parenting.
A. Arace; D. Scarzello
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