The conclusions drawn by Steinberg and his colleagues (e.g., Steinberg et al., 1994) about the beneficial
effects of authoritative parenting on adolescents appear to hold only for White families, not for African Americans or Asian Americans (Steinberg, Dornbusch, & Brown, 1992).
As Laurence Steinberg and his colleagues have argued, peer pressure can weaken the beneficial
effects of the authoritative parenting style (Steinberg et al 1992).
Researchers have posed several different explanations, which you can read about in this article that contrasts the effects of authoritarian parenting with
the effects of authoritative parenting.
Not exact matches
One thing that does seem to be consistent across the research into the
Authoritative Parenting Style - there does not seem to be any evidence that this style of parenting has a negative effect - unlike some of the other parentin
Parenting Style - there does not seem to be any evidence that this style
of parenting has a negative effect - unlike some of the other parentin
parenting has a negative
effect - unlike some
of the other
parentingparenting styles.
This finding is consistent with the meta - analysis by Amato and Gilbreth (1999) showing that when it comes to nonresident father involvement, although feelings
of closeness and indicators
of authoritative parenting have the strongest influence on child well - being, the
effects are generally modest... Our results also reveal that the quality
of the mother - child relationship has stronger, more consistent
effects on adolescent well - being than the nonresident father - child relationship.
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.
Within the remaining
parenting dimensions (i.e.,
authoritative, authoritarian and psychological control), mean
effect sizes
of discrete
parenting behaviors were relatively similar (Table 2).