A common approach is to distinguish
between authoritative control and authoritarian control (Baumrind 1968, 1971).
Not exact matches
It is this naïveté that The Handmaid's Tale addresses with its appended «historical» commentary, challenging us to think about something otherwise difficult to see: the relationship
between the crises of our civilization and its historic textual politics — the continuing story of who
controls, legitimates, engenders and eliminates whom and what through the power of
authoritative language, grounded in the Word.
This may set off an internal power struggle
between the
authoritative part of you that wants
control and the part of you that resists being
controlled.
According to Modern Mom, strict parenting can yield positive outcomes if it's
authoritative instead of being authoritarian, noting the fact that
authoritative parenting style provides a balance
between «warmth and communication» without losing the «appropriate
control and supervision.»
Finally, the relation
between freedom and
control is examined and the position defended that
authoritative control may effectively generate in the child, behavior which while well socialized is also wilful and independent.
Analyzing parenting dimensions, we found significant differences
between various types of
control including
authoritative, authoritarian, behavioral and psychological
control, with the highest effect sizes for psychological
control.
After
controlling for age at adoption, age, the adoptive mother's education level, household income, and the girls» corresponding behavior problems from the second wave of data (2 years prior), we found that that the association
between NCR - family stress and the adopted Chinese girls» internalizing problems and externalizing problems was mediated by authoritarian parenting and moderated by
authoritative parenting.
In short, the
authoritative parenting type includes two components that are related to support, whereas the two other components are related to behavioral
control, thus reflecting the assumed balance
between support and demandingness in
authoritative parenting (Darling & Steinberg, 1993).