Year: 1999
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: To investigate the relationships between mothers' parenting practices and child withdrawal behaviors and temperament, two hundred and fourteen mothers, whose children (male 101, female 113) are enrolled in nursery schools in Kushiro participated with this project.Two questionnaires, parenting practices and child' s temperament were filled out by mothers, and child's withdrawal behaviors were rated by teachers.The findings showed that child's active solitary behaviors were negatively correlated with mother's verbal encouragement parenting styles.Passive solitary behaviors were negatively correlated with autocratic parenting styles and positively correlated with emotional parenting styles.Reticence behaviors were negatively correlated with authoritative parenting styles.There were many associations between child temperament and parenting styles.The factors, emotional, unsociable and immature in temperament were positively correlated with authoritarian and its subfactors such as corporal punishment, no-reasoning, autocratic, and directive parenting styles.Also, a factor, sociable was associated with authoritative and its subfactors such as warmth, verbal encouragement, easy going, reasoning, and democratic discipline parenting styles.Regression analyses showed that unstable, immature and emotional child temperament influenced mothers' authoritarian parenting styles and sociable child temperament influenced authoritative parenting styles.Further research is needed to find the relationships between child social behaviors and parenting practices including measurement. Key Words: parenting practices
Author: Sueko Toda
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W42200964