Physical activity (PA) parenting research has proliferated over the past decade, with findings verifying the influential role that parents play in children's emerging PA behaviors. This knowledge, however, has not translated into effective family-based PA interventions. During a preconference workshop to the 2012 International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity annual meetin...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the utility of familial and parental variables in predicting trajectories of parenting behaviors among families of young adolescents with and without spina bifida (SB). METHOD Sixty-eight families with a child with SB and a demographically matched comparison group (CG) of 68 families of an able-bodied child participated. Observational and questionnaire assessments of par...

"Tiger" parenting, as described by Amy Chua [2011], has instigated scholarly discourse on this phenomenon and its possible effects on families. Our eight-year longitudinal study, published in the Asian American Journal of Psychology [Kim, Wang, Orozco-Lapray, Shen, & Murtuza, 2013b], demonstrates that tiger parenting is not a common parenting profile in a sample of 444 Chinese American families...

The purpose of this paper was to discuss how parenting has changed in recent decades. The topics discussed include: (1) increased focus on parenting in today's culture; (2) perception of pediatric dentists regarding parenting changes; (3) relative importance of parenting in children's development; (4) family/parenting trends; and (5) the role of stress in the changing nature of parenting.

PARENTING STYLE AFFECT CHILD DEVELOPMENT AMONG DIFFERENT ETHNICITIES OF MUSLIM CHILDREN IN THE UNITED STATES Noor A. Rosli, B.A., M.S. Marquette University, 2013 Parenting styles create different social environments in the life of children at home. Countless research can be found about parenting styles, such as, parenting associated with child behavior and cross-cultural parenting (Keels, 2009;...

OBJECTIVE To determine the factors associated with stress among parents of children with autism. STUDY DESIGN A cross-sectional field survey study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Psychology, GC University, Lahore, from September 2012 to November 2013. METHODOLOGY The sample consisted of 100 parents (50 mothers and 50 fathers) of children with autism. Measures of childhood autis...

This article is written as a contribution to the parenting debate and as a response to Hoghughi and Speight. Our starting point is simple; parenting cannot be understood, and neither can interventions to support eVective parenting and successful childrearing be planned, unless it is placed within its economic, social, historical, and political context. Our paper is based around three interconne...

................................................................................................... Introduction................................................................................................ A Brief Summary of Research on Developmental Pathways to Conduct Problems... Parenting Practices and the Etiology of Serious Conduct Problems..................... Differences in the Role o...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the psychometric properties of a vegetable parenting practices scale using multidimensional polytomous item response modeling which enables assessing item fit to latent variables and the distributional characteristics of the items in comparison to the respondents. We also tested for differences in the ways item function (called differential item functioning) across child's...

AIM To explore whether changes in parenting self-efficacy after attending a parenting programme are related to changes in parenting stress and child behaviour. BACKGROUND Adverse parenting is a risk factor in the development of a range of health and behavioural problems in childhood and is predictive of poor adult outcomes. Strategies for supporting parents are recognised as an effective way ...