Parenting self-efficacy is an important construct in understanding parents' choices about their child-rearing. Associations between marital and coparenting relationships have been established in prior research. Most of these studies used global assessments of marital quality, marital satisfaction, or measures of conflict to predict to the quality of the coparenting relationship. The present study is unique in that it utilizes multiple dimensions of marital quality, including satisfaction, maintenance strategies, and conflict, to examine the associations between marriage, coparenting, and parenting self-efficacy. These associations were explored using the Family Systems framework, comparing the explanatory power of the additive and compensatory processes. Of the marital quality indices, maintenance was the strongest, most consistent predictor of parenting cognitions for mothers and fathers, predicting to both parenting self-efficacy and meta-parenting. Mothers' reports of marital satisfaction were negatively associated with their, and their partner's, parenting self-efficacy. Undermining coparenting was predictive of parenting self-efficacy for mothers and fathers, but only predictive of meta-parenting for mothers. There was evidence supporting positive additive effects of marriage and coparenting on parenting self-efficacy. Maintenance for mothers, and marital satisfaction for fathers, combined with supportive coparenting to predict to even greater parenting self-efficacy. There was also support for the compensatory effect of marital quality on parenting self-efficacy for fathers. Fathers reporting higher levels of maintenance in combination with higher levels of undermining coparenting maintained their levels of parenting self-efficacy while fathers reporting lower levels of maintenance also reported less parenting self-efficacy in the face of higher undermining coparenting.

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M.A. (Counselling Psychology) / The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a parent guidance programme for Afrikaans-speaking parents. The parent guidance programme used, was based on both humanistic and behavioural principles and procedures. In evaluating the effectiveness of the parent guidance programme the specific aims of the study were: To ascertain whether mothers subjected to the programme, demonstrated a greater amount of interpersonal sensitivity towards their children after being subjected to the programme than mothers not subjected to the programme ...

by Maggie, Wong Mei Ting. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-84). / Abstract also in Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.i / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii / LIST OF TABLES --- p.v / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.vi / LIST OF APPENDICES --- p.vii / Chapter CHAPTER I - --- INTRODUCTION / Beck's cognitive model --- p.1 / Schemas --- p.3 / Cognitive styles and psychopathology --- p.8 / Schema development --- p.9 / Parenting styles --- p.13 / Parenting styles and cognitive styles --- p.13 / Parenting styles and psychopathology --- p.14 / Depression and related parenting styles --- p.15 / Anxiety and related parenting styles --- p.16 / Aggression and related parenting styles --- p.16 / "Parenting styles, cognitive styles and psychopathology" --- p.17 / Purpose of this study --- p.17 / Chapter CHAPTER II - --- METHODOLOGY / Participants --- p.19 / Measures --- p.20 / Procedure --- p.24 / Chapter CHAPTER III - --- RESULTS / Factor analysis --- p.25 / "Means, standard deviations and internal consistency" --- p.37 / Inter-correlation analysis between the hypothesized Parenting Scale and the factor-derived Parenting Scale --- p.39 / Inter-correlation analysis between factor-derived Parenting Scale --- p.43 / Inter-correlation analysis between three types of psychopathology --- p.47 / "Correlations between parenting subscales, schemas subscales and psychopathology" --- p.47 / Regression analyses --- p.53 / Hierarchical regression analyses --- p.55 / Testing the mediational models --- p.59 / Cross-validation --- p.62 / Chapter CHAPTER IV - --- DISCUSSION --- p.63 / REFERENCES --- p.73 / APPENDICES

Data from 183 participants were collected through an online survey focusing on the relationship between parenting styles and self-esteem across a specific age range. Parenting styles were assessed using a four-factor model while self-esteem was evaluated using two different scales. Multiple analyses were completed to find that self-esteem changed across the age range, and across parenting styles. The study looks at the ways in which these two variables changed. Implications, limitations and future research opportunities are discussed.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [72]-79). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [72]-79). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2000. / Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 218-244).

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This correlational study examined parent-feeding practices, childrens negative affect towards food, and parental psychological and behavioural control, and parenting styles relating to parental behavioural and psychological control. Parents and their children aged 9-13 years completed self-report questionnaires measuring parental behavioural and psychological control, feeding practices, parenting styles and dimensions, and family eating and activity habits. Behavioural control was negatively related to monitoring, but positively correlated to parents using both pressure and rewards to encourage children to eat. Psychological control was negatively correlated to monitoring, but positively correlated to parents perceptions of their own weight and concerns about their children being overweight. No correlations were found between parents perceived use of psychological or behavioural control and childrens perceptions of parental control. Parental psychological control was positively correlated to children and parents eating in problematic situations. The three main parenting styles were investigated and behavioural and psychological control were positively related to authoritarian and permissive parenting styles. / Psychological Studies in Education