TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Maternal and Paternal Parenting Styles in Adolescents: Associations with Self-Esteem, Depression and Life-Satisfaction
JO  - Journal of child and family studies
A1  - Milevsky, Avidan
A1  - Schlechter, Melissa
A1  - Netter, Sarah
A1  - Keehn, Danielle
SP  - 39
EP  - 47
VL  - 16
IS  - 1
N2  - Our study examined variations in adolescent adjustment as a function of maternal and paternal parenting styles. Participants included 272 students in grades 9 and 11 from a public high school in a metropolitan area of the Northeastern US. Participants completed measures of maternal and paternal parenting styles and indices of psychological adjustment. Authoritative mothering was found to relate to higher self-esteem and life-satisfaction and to lower depression. Paternal parenting styles was also related to psychological adjustment, however, although the advantage of authoritative mothering over permissive mothering was evident for all outcomes assessed, for paternal styles the advantage was less defined and only evident for depression. Our study highlights the importance of examining process-oriented agents as part of the broader interest in well-being variations in adolescents.<p /> 
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SN  - 1062-1024
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-006-9066-5
ID  - ref1
ER  -