Bidirectional Relations Between Parenting and Behavior Problems From Age 8 to 13 in Nine Countries

• This study used data from 12 cultural groups in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States; N=1,298) to understand the cross-cultural generalizability of how parental warmth and control are bidirectionally related to externalizing and internalizing behaviors from childhood to early adolescence. Mothers, fathers, and children completed measures when children were ages 8-13. Multiple-group autoregressive, cross-lagged structural equationmodels revealed that child effects rather than parent effects may better characterize how warmth and control are related to child externalizing and internalizing behaviors over time, and that parent effects may be more characteristic of relations between parental warmth and control and child externalizing and internalizing behavior during childhood than early adolescence.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Psykologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Psychology (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Acceptance-rejection

early adolescence

child adjustment

psychological control

reciprocal relations

decision making

substance use

family

perspectives

meta analysis

Psychology

Psykologi

Barn- och ungdomsvetenskap

Child and Youth studies

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)