This study considered the measurement properties of two indigenous constructs assessing Chinese parenting and parent–child relationships. The study also examined whether the relationships between guanjiao, xiao, and adolescent psychosocial adjustment, as theorized in previous scholarly work, hold for contemporary families in mainland China. Data were collected from a sample of 144 early adolesc...

This study examines whether and how couples share the provision of informal care for their parents. Four waves of the British General Household Survey contain cross-sectional information about caring for parents and parents-in-law. Descriptive and multivariate analyses were conducted on 2214 couples that provided parent care. The findings emphasise married men’s contribution to informal caring ...

This paper investigates the research question: How do religious youth learn to give? While it is likely that youth learn religious financial giving from a variety of different sources, this investigation focuses primarily on how parents teach giving to their children. Supplementary data are also analyzed on the frequency in which youth hear extra-familial calls to give within their religious co...

Bullying, a typical occurrence in schools, has gone digital. As a result, cyberbullying has become ever more present among youth. The current study aimed to classify high school students into four groups based on their cyberbullying experiences and to examine the characteristics of these groups based on the sex and age of the participants and the level of parental monitoring. Participants were ...

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This paper reviews the recent literature on the role that parenting has in the development of youth anxiety. Research indicates that certain parenting behaviors may be risk factors for youth anxiety problems. Three dimensions of parenting are examined as potential risk factors for youth anxiety: negative parenting behaviors (i.e. control and rejection), anxious rearing, and poor parental discip...

There is wide consensus that parental discipline can have important affects on the psychological well-being of children, but there is little consensus on what constitutes discipline. For many parents, 'discipline' is a euphemism for spanking and other legal and culturally approved tonns of corporal punishment. At the other extreme, for many professionals, 'discipline' is anything done to raise ...

A Constitutional Theory of the Family The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The behavioural and policy implications are illustrated by showing the...

Lack of trust in online companies is a primary reason why many web users do not shop online. This study proposes a model to explain how new customers of a web-based company develop initial trust in the company after their first visit. The model is empirically tested using a questionnaire-based field study. The results indicate that perceived company reputation and willingness to customize produ...

a Department of Marketing, University of Texas at Arlington, Box 19469, 701S. West Street, Arlington, TX 76019, United States b Department of Marketing, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3C3, Canada c Royal Bank Distinguished Professor of Marketing, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve West, Montréal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada d School of Business, ...