
Parenting Styles • Two dimensions of parenting • Acceptance/Responsiveness (AC) • Demandingness/Control (DC) • Baumrind’s parenting types • Authoritarian: AC=low, DC=high • Authoritative: AC=high, DC=high • Permissive: AC=high, DC=low • Neglectful: AC=low, DC=low
Outcomes of Parenting Styles • Children of authoritative parents • Adjusted, responsible, high achievement • Children of authoritarian parents • Moody, unhappy, aimless • Children of permissive parents • Low: self-control, independence, achievers • Children of neglectful/uninvolved parents • Behavior problems, antisocial