TY - JOUR
T1 - Positive parenting and children's prosocial behavior in eight countries
AU - Pastorelli, Concetta
AU - Lansford, Jennifer E.
AU - Luengo Kanacri, Bernadette Paula
AU - Malone, Patrick S.
AU - Di Giunta, Laura
AU - Bacchini, Dario
AU - Bombi, Anna Silvia
AU - Zelli, Arnaldo
AU - Miranda, Maria Concetta
AU - Bornstein, Marc H.
AU - Tapanya, Sombat
AU - Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria
AU - Alampay, Liane Pena
AU - Al-Hassan, Suha M.
AU - Chang, Lei
AU - Deater-Deckard, Kirby
AU - Dodge, Kenneth A.
AU - Oburu, Paul
AU - Skinner, Ann T.
AU - Sorbring, Emma
N1 - Funding Information:
This research has been funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant RO1-HD054805 and Fogarty International Center grant RO3-TW008141. Author P.S.M. was supported by grant K01DA024116 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Author K.A.D is supported by Senior Scientist award 2K05 DA015226 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Author B.P.L.K. was partially funded by the Interdisciplinary Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies, CESOC, GRANT: CONICYT/FONDAP/15130009. This research also was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH/NICHD. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH or NICHD. The authors have declared that they have no competing or potential conflicts of interest.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
PY - 2016/7/1
Y1 - 2016/7/1
N2 - Background: Research supports the beneficial role of prosocial behaviors on children's adjustment and successful youth development. Empirical studies point to reciprocal relations between negative parenting and children's maladjustment, but reciprocal relations between positive parenting and children's prosocial behavior are understudied. In this study reciprocal relations between two different dimensions of positive parenting (quality of the mother–child relationship and the use of balanced positive discipline) and children's prosocial behavior were examined in Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States. Methods: Mother–child dyads (N = 1105) provided data over 2 years in two waves (Mage of child in wave 1 = 9.31 years, SD = 0.73; 50% female). Results: A model of reciprocal relations between parenting dimensions, but not among parenting and children's prosocial behavior, emerged. In particular, children with higher levels of prosocial behavior at age 9 elicited higher levels of mother–child relationship quality in the following year. Conclusions: Findings yielded similar relations across countries, evidencing that being prosocial in late childhood contributes to some degree to the enhancement of a nurturing and involved mother–child relationship in countries that vary widely on sociodemographic profiles and psychological characteristics. Policy and intervention implications of this study are discussed.
AB - Background: Research supports the beneficial role of prosocial behaviors on children's adjustment and successful youth development. Empirical studies point to reciprocal relations between negative parenting and children's maladjustment, but reciprocal relations between positive parenting and children's prosocial behavior are understudied. In this study reciprocal relations between two different dimensions of positive parenting (quality of the mother–child relationship and the use of balanced positive discipline) and children's prosocial behavior were examined in Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States. Methods: Mother–child dyads (N = 1105) provided data over 2 years in two waves (Mage of child in wave 1 = 9.31 years, SD = 0.73; 50% female). Results: A model of reciprocal relations between parenting dimensions, but not among parenting and children's prosocial behavior, emerged. In particular, children with higher levels of prosocial behavior at age 9 elicited higher levels of mother–child relationship quality in the following year. Conclusions: Findings yielded similar relations across countries, evidencing that being prosocial in late childhood contributes to some degree to the enhancement of a nurturing and involved mother–child relationship in countries that vary widely on sociodemographic profiles and psychological characteristics. Policy and intervention implications of this study are discussed.
KW - Prosocial behavior
KW - cross-national
KW - late childhood
KW - parenting
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U2 - 10.1111/jcpp.12477
DO - 10.1111/jcpp.12477
M3 - Article
C2 - 26511201
AN - SCOPUS:84949255445
VL - 57
SP - 824
EP - 834
JO - Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
JF - Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
SN - 0021-9630
IS - 7
ER -