To investigate the effect of various parenting styles on kids» health, researchers at the University of Oregon examined saliva samples of 102 children who had an average age of 9 to look for levels of C - reactive protein, which measures general inflammation in the body, and secretory immunoglobulin A, which measures immune system activation. (verywellfamily.com)
Diana Baumrind was a developmental psychologist who described at length about various parenting styles during the 1960s. (momjunction.com)
Psychologists have considered these two parameters to come up with various parenting styles, all of which depend on the correlation between responsiveness and demandingness. (momjunction.com)