Consistency and inconsistency in the styles of fathers and mothers and psychological adjustment in adolescents

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Published: Sep 18, 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2014.n1.v2.460
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parenting styles consistency inconsistency psychosocial adjustment problems adolescent

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Mª de la Villa Carpio Fernández
Universidad de Jaén
Mª Cruz García Linares
Universidad de Jaén
Manuel Jesús de la Torre Cruz
Universidad de Jaén
Mª Teresa Cerezo Rusillo
Universidad de Jaén
Pedro F. Casanova Arias
Universidad de Jaén

Abstract

This paper analyzed the different consistent and inconsistent combination of maternal and paternal parenting styles and their relationships with psychosocial adjustment problems reported by their children. The participant were 840 Secondary schools students, aged 12 to 16. A cluster analysis was performed in order to obtain the parenting styles of both mothers and fathers. The results shown that children report lower levels of internalizing and externalizing problems when assigning a democratic style to both parents. Children who have a father or a mother with a democratic style have lower psychosocial adjustment problems than family situations where the democratic style is not present. Finally, children whose parents agree on an affective-authoritarian style have fewer externalizing problems.

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Carpio Fernández, M. de la V., García Linares, M. C., de la Torre Cruz, M. J., Cerezo Rusillo, M. T., & Casanova Arias, P. F. (2014). Consistency and inconsistency in the styles of fathers and mothers and psychological adjustment in adolescents. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD De Psicología., 2(1), 447–456. https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2014.n1.v2.460
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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2014): EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST
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