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10 - Parental Knowledge and Family Atmosphere in Relation to Children's Socioemotional Behavior

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2009

Riitta-Leena Metsäpelto
Affiliation:
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Petri Juujärvi
Affiliation:
University of Tampere, Finland
Lea Pulkkinen
Affiliation:
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Jaakko Kaprio
Affiliation:
University of Helsinki
Richard J. Rose
Affiliation:
Indiana University, Bloomington
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INTRODUCTION

The central goal of parenting is to socialize children to conform to the demands of society while helping them to develop and maintain a sense of personal integrity and autonomy (Baumrind, 1971). Although the specific characteristics, skills, and knowledge considered desirable in children vary from one culture to another, there is general agreement that children should be reared to become adults who are mentally and physically healthy, are productive at work, and have the ability to form relationships with other people (Maccoby & Martin, 1983). Parents are not the only socialization agents that contribute to the development of children, but they are considered central sources of influence (Collins, Maccoby, Steinberg, Hetherington, & Bornstein, 2000).

The goal of this chapter is to present research findings on parenting and child development, based on the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS). First, we summarize earlier JYLS findings demonstrating the role of parenting and family circumstances in the development of children. Second, we focus on the challenge of conceptualization and measurement of parenting. In this connection, we present approaches used in the JYLS to determine the quality of parenting. We also describe recent results that concern the selection of the informant and parental personality characteristics as the source of variation in parenting. Finally, we further elaborate the issue of measurement of parenting by linking multi-informant data on parenting to child socialization.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2006

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