Associations of parenting dimensions and styles with externalizing problems of children and adolescents: An updated meta-analysis.
2017/05/01 by Martin Pinquart · 1,313 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Autonomy #Child Abuse and Trauma #Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development #Child discipline #Child rearing #Clinical psychology #Developmental psychology #Early Childhood Education and Development #Externalization #Human factors and ergonomics #MEDLINE #Meta-analysis #Parenting styles #Permissive #Poison control #PsycINFO #Psychological control #Psychology #Self-control #Social psychology
paper · doi:10.1037/dev0000295
published in Developmental Psychology 53(5), 873-932 (American Psychological Association)
openalex publication_date 2017/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Abstract
The present meta-analysis integrates research from 1,435 studies on associations of parenting dimensions and styles with externalizing symptoms in children and adolescents. Parental warmth, behavioral control, autonomy granting, and an authoritative parenting style showed very small to small negative concurrent and longitudinal associations with externalizing problems. In contrast, harsh control, psychological control, authoritarian, permissive, and neglectful parenting were associated with higher levels of externalizing problems. The strongest associations were observed for harsh control and psychological control. Parental warmth, behavioral control, harsh control, psychological control, autonomy granting, authoritative, and permissive parenting predicted change in externalizing problems over time, with associations of externalizing problems with warmth, behavioral control, harsh control, psychological control, and authoritative parenting being bidirectional. Moderating effects of sampling, child's age, form of externalizing problems, rater of parenting and externalizing problems, quality of measures, and publication status were identified. Implications for future research and practice are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record
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