OBJECTIVE The goal was to explore the association between parenting style and driving behaviors. METHODS The 2006 National Young Driver Survey gathered data on driving safety behaviors from a nationally representative sample of 5665 ninth-, 10th-, and 11th-graders. A parenting style variable was based on adolescent reports and separated parents into 4 groups, (1) authoritative (high support a...

This article shows the correlations between academic achievement and the different parenting styles. It also focuses on the correlation between parenting styles, achievement motivation and self-efficacy. The three types of parenting styles discussed in the article are authoritative, permissive and authoritarian. Authoritarian parenting is marked by high levels of nurturance, involvement and sen...

Thank you for taking time to read this draft. This paper was presented at MPSA this year and I wish to develop it into my prospectus. My work uses China as a case to study how authoritarian regimes design the personnel system to manage intergovernmental relationship and sustain their rule. I will greatly appreciate any thoughts on how the paper can be improved. In particular, I look forward to ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the direct and interacting relations of parenting styles, feeding styles, and feeding practices to child overweight and obesity. Participants were 144 mothers and children under 6 years of age. Mothers completed questionnaires about parenting and feeding styles and feeding practices. Researchers weighed and measured mothers and children or obtained meas...

While numerous countries in post-authoritarian South America have annulled Amnesty Laws issued under authoritarian rule and punished officials involved in repressive organs, Brazil continues to favour impunity. This attitude has recently been confirmed by the Brazilian Supreme Court’s decision to maintain the 1979 Amnesty Law granting de-facto impunity to violators of human rights during the mi...

Modernization theorists believe that education empowers citizens to take collective action to challenge authoritarian rule. I argue that education in most authoritarian countries is government run, and that authoritarian governments have enormous incentives to shape the form and content of education in their favor. In post-Tiananmen China, the government has used propaganda, control, and recrui...

Does the use of repression undermine authoritarian rulers’ legitimacy? I argue that state repression can make individuals internalize a strategy (trust or distrust) as a heuristic in situations where information acquisition is either costly or imperfect, so repression has a long-lasting negative effect on people’s trust of authoritarian rulers. I test this proposition by studying one of the mos...