Predictive Power of Parenting Styles on Children’s Social Skills: A Brazilian Sample

SAGE Open

Daniel Bartholomeu¹ 

关键词: parenting styles;    social skills;    educational practices;    educational psychology;    development;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2158244016638393

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

CC BY