Authoritarian Parenting
Republic of the philipines
Eastern Visayas State University
Tacloban City
Influence of Childs Behavior in school by Authoritarian Parents
Submitted by: Jerome G. Bustillo BSChE-2A
Submitted to: Susana V. Loyola Instructor
Authoritarian parenting: How does it affect the kids?
Kids from authoritarian families are relatively well-behaved.
Overall, studies report that kids from authoritarian families get into less trouble than kids from permissive or uninvolved families.
This is true for drug and alcohol use, and it seems to be the case for other risky behaviors, like driving without a seat belt (Ginsburg et al 2004).
It’s also true for “externalizing behavior problems”--i.e., disruptive, aggressive, or anti-social behavior (e.g., Lamborn et al 1991; Sternberg et al 1996; Sternberg et al 2006; Williams et al 2009).
But we should keep two things in mind:
1. Kids from authoritarian families may not be as well-behaved as kids from authoritative families. Studies suggest, for instance, that kids exposed to authoritarian parenting show less advanced moral reasoning and self-regulation (see below).
2. Many studies reporting links between behavior problems and parenting style depend on self-reports, meaning that they measure behavior problems by asking the kids to report on their own misdeeds.
It seems to me that kids raised by authoritarian parents might be especially reluctant to confess wrongdoing to authority figures--even if those authority figures are researchers who promise to keep their answers confidential. So perhaps we should be skeptical about studies that rely on self-reports.
Self-reports suggest that kids from authoritarian families are about as well-behaved as kids from authoritative families. But when researchers have used other ways of measuring misbehavior, they have gotten different results.
For example, a study of African-American preschoolers found that authoritative caregivers--not authoritarian caregivers--were the least
Eastern Visayas State University
Tacloban City
Influence of Childs Behavior in school by Authoritarian Parents
Submitted by: Jerome G. Bustillo BSChE-2A
Submitted to: Susana V. Loyola Instructor
Authoritarian parenting: How does it affect the kids?
Kids from authoritarian families are relatively well-behaved.
Overall, studies report that kids from authoritarian families get into less trouble than kids from permissive or uninvolved families.
This is true for drug and alcohol use, and it seems to be the case for other risky behaviors, like driving without a seat belt (Ginsburg et al 2004).
It’s also true for “externalizing behavior problems”--i.e., disruptive, aggressive, or anti-social behavior (e.g., Lamborn et al 1991; Sternberg et al 1996; Sternberg et al 2006; Williams et al 2009).
But we should keep two things in mind:
1. Kids from authoritarian families may not be as well-behaved as kids from authoritative families. Studies suggest, for instance, that kids exposed to authoritarian parenting show less advanced moral reasoning and self-regulation (see below).
2. Many studies reporting links between behavior problems and parenting style depend on self-reports, meaning that they measure behavior problems by asking the kids to report on their own misdeeds.
It seems to me that kids raised by authoritarian parents might be especially reluctant to confess wrongdoing to authority figures--even if those authority figures are researchers who promise to keep their answers confidential. So perhaps we should be skeptical about studies that rely on self-reports.
Self-reports suggest that kids from authoritarian families are about as well-behaved as kids from authoritative families. But when researchers have used other ways of measuring misbehavior, they have gotten different results.
For example, a study of African-American preschoolers found that authoritative caregivers--not authoritarian caregivers--were the least