Parenting behaviors are known to have a major impact on childhood obesity but it has proven difficult to isolate the specific mechanism of influence. The present study uses Baumrind's parenting typologies (authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive) to examine associations between parenting styles and parenting practices associated with childhood obesity. Data were collected from a diverse sa...

abstract aim: aim of study was to determine structural model of relationships between psychosocial developments of offspring’s with spiritual intelligence (sq) and parenting styles of their mothers. method: research method was correlational and statistical population were 29,474 female and male universities students of alborz province in the 2015-16 academic year. by multi-stage random sampling...

It would do no justice to a review of the Republic of China’s centennial development if focus is cast exclusively on the ROC’ early period on the Chinese mainland, the authoritarian era in Taiwan, or the two decades after democratization. This article attempts to provide a broad overview of the century of the Republic by putting the ROC’s three developmental stages in a theoretical framework, p...

OBJECTIVE: The present study examined mean level similarities and differences as well as correlations between mothers' and fathers' attributions regarding successes and failures in caregiving situations and progressive versus authoritarian attitudes in Jordan. DESIGN: Interviews were conducted with both mothers and fathers in 112 families. RESULTS: There were no significant main effects of ge...

Evangelical Christians are a rapidly growing share of the population in most Latin American countries, yet there is substantial cross-national variation in this religious minority’s involvement and success with electoral politics. This paper examines one possible explanation for the electoral success or failure of evangelical politicians—the effect on voting behavior of their ties to former dic...

A 2-year longitudinal study was conducted to test 3 causal models about adolescent autonomy, filial piety, beliefs about parental authority, and obedience in terms of personal, prudential, and multifaceted issues. Four hundred and thirty-six students from 10 junior and senior high schools in Taiwan (boys, n = 223; senior high school, n = 211) participated in the study. Hypothesis I predicted th...