OBJECTIVE To evaluate the utility of familial and parental variables in predicting trajectories of parenting behaviors among families of young adolescents with and without spina bifida (SB). METHOD Sixty-eight families with a child with SB and a demographically matched comparison group (CG) of 68 families of an able-bodied child participated. Observational and questionnaire assessments of par...

PARENTING STYLE AFFECT CHILD DEVELOPMENT AMONG DIFFERENT ETHNICITIES OF MUSLIM CHILDREN IN THE UNITED STATES Noor A. Rosli, B.A., M.S. Marquette University, 2013 Parenting styles create different social environments in the life of children at home. Countless research can be found about parenting styles, such as, parenting associated with child behavior and cross-cultural parenting (Keels, 2009;...

OBJECTIVE To determine the factors associated with stress among parents of children with autism. STUDY DESIGN A cross-sectional field survey study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Psychology, GC University, Lahore, from September 2012 to November 2013. METHODOLOGY The sample consisted of 100 parents (50 mothers and 50 fathers) of children with autism. Measures of childhood autis...

"Tiger" parenting, as described by Amy Chua [2011], has instigated scholarly discourse on this phenomenon and its possible effects on families. Our eight-year longitudinal study, published in the Asian American Journal of Psychology [Kim, Wang, Orozco-Lapray, Shen, & Murtuza, 2013b], demonstrates that tiger parenting is not a common parenting profile in a sample of 444 Chinese American families...

The purpose of this paper was to discuss how parenting has changed in recent decades. The topics discussed include: (1) increased focus on parenting in today's culture; (2) perception of pediatric dentists regarding parenting changes; (3) relative importance of parenting in children's development; (4) family/parenting trends; and (5) the role of stress in the changing nature of parenting.

The investigation and identification of factors shaping children’s development have long been central to the field of developmental psychology; and parenting has long been considered one of the most important sources of influence. A vast body of empirical evidence highlights the contribution of parenting to a wide range of cognitive, socio-emotional, and behavioral developmental outcomes. Long ...