OBJECTIVE The tobacco industry contends that parenting practices, not marketing practices, are critical to youth smoking. Our objective was to examine whether tobacco-industry marketing practices undermine the protective effect of recommended authoritative parenting against adolescent smoking. DESIGN AND SETTING Receptivity to tobacco advertising and promotions was assessed in 1996 from a rep...

The goals of this study were: (a) to examine authoritative parenting style among Chinese immigrant mothers of young children, (b) to test the mediational mechanism between authoritative parenting style and children's outcomes; and (c) to evaluate 3 predictors of authoritative parenting style (psychological well-being, perceived support in the parenting role, parenting stress). Participants incl...

Heterogeneity in parenting was examined in 883 Arab refugee adolescents in Jordan (Mage  = 15.01 years, SD = 1.60). Latent profile analyses of five parenting dimensions rated separately for mothers and fathers yielded authoritative, authoritarian, indifferent, punitive, and for mothers, permissive profiles, with most mothers (60%) and fathers (66%) classified as authoritative. Parenting was mor...

Researchers have reported that parental authority has linked to levels of child’s self-esteem. Most previous research has shown that authoritative parenting is more beneficial to adolescent self-esteem than authoritarian parenting (Furnham & Cheng, 2000). The effects of authoritarian parenting, however, have yielded contradictory results in Asian cultures. Therefore, the current study aimed to ...