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Predictive Power of Parenting Styles on Children’s Social Skills

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  • Daniel Bartholomeu
  • José Maria Montiel
  • Geraldo A. Fiamenghi Jr.
  • Afonso Antonio Machado

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The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between parenting styles and children’s social skills, establishing significant correlations between those two constructs. A total of 202 children, 7 to 10 years old, male and female, attending second to fourth year of government schools in São Paulo, Brazil, were participants of this research. They collectively completed Children’s Social Skills Test (THAS-C) and Parental Styles Inventory (IEP). Results suggest that positive parental styles are predictors of altruism, while negative parental styles are predictors of assertiveness, conversation, and social confidence. Regarding general social skills, variables that offered the best probable model were positive monitoring, lax discipline, moral behavior, and physical abuse (the higher the general social skill, the lesser the abusive parenting styles). As a conclusion, it seems that different social skills are related to positive and negative parenting styles, reinforcing the idea of a social skill as an attribute of behavior.

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  • Daniel Bartholomeu & José Maria Montiel & Geraldo A. Fiamenghi Jr. & Afonso Antonio Machado, 2016. "Predictive Power of Parenting Styles on Children’s Social Skills," SAGE Open, , vol. 6(2), pages 21582440166, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:sagope:v:6:y:2016:i:2:p:2158244016638393
    DOI: 10.1177/2158244016638393
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    1. Ritu Arora, 2023. "Intellectual Structure of Parenting Style Research: A Bibliometric Analysis," SAGE Open, , vol. 13(2), pages 21582440231, April.
    2. Ana Romero-Abrio & Belén Martínez-Ferrer & Daniel Musitu-Ferrer & Celeste León-Moreno & María Elena Villarreal-González & Juan Evaristo Callejas-Jerónimo, 2019. "Family Communication Problems, Psychosocial Adjustment and Cyberbullying," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(13), pages 1-13, July.
    3. Anjum Bano Kazimi & Muhammad Ali Shaikh & Stephen John, 2019. "Mothers Role and Perception in Developing Gender Discrimination," Global Political Review, Humanity Only, vol. 4(2), pages 20-28, June.

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