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Identification with all humanity (IWAH), defined as a bond with and concern for people all over the world, predicts concern for global problems, commitment to human rights, and prosocial activities. However, it is still unknown how such a broad social identification develops and if early experiences play any role. Two studies explored the role of diverse childhood and adolescence intergroup experiences in predicting IWAH in adulthood. We focused on experiences such as being raised in diversity and having intergroup friends, helping or being helped by various others, and having experiences leading to re- or de-categorization, and introduced a new Childhood/Adolescent Intergroup Experiences (CAIE) scale. Study 1 (N = 313 U.S. students, Mage = 21) and Study 2 (N = 1,000, a representative Polish sample, Mage = 47) found that this kind of intergroup experiences during childhood and adolescence predicted IWAH beyond the effects of its other known predictors, such as empathy, openness to experience, universalism, right- wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation or ethnocentrism. These results, obtained on various samples and in countries with different ethno- cultural contexts, point to potential ways of enlarging IWAH during childhood and adolescence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract The relationship between parents and children and human development has been the greatest interest to Psychology because it impacts the youth’s behaviour and well being. Thus, this study aimed to investigate parental styles adopted by adolescents’ parents from a combination of responsiveness and demandingness dimensions as well as by gender and age group. 296 adolescents aged 14 to 19 years (M=16.03; DP=0.96), high school students from public and private schools in the city of Passo Fundo/RS and surrounding area participated of this study. We used a sociodemographic data questionnaire constructed for the study and Scale of Parental Responsiveness and Demandingness. The analysis revealed that there was a balance between the perception of neglectful (33.1%) e authoritative (32.7%) styles, followed by authoritarian (17.3%) and permissive (16.9%) styles. There were no statistical differences between responsiveness and demandingness and sex. The younger adolescents perceive their mothers as significantly more demanding when compared to the older ones. The same occured with the combined demandingness. The results also indicate that there were statistically significant differences in the perception of responsiveness and demandingness by age group. The findings of this study suggest further investigations, relating parental styles with other variables of influence and evidence the need of parental training for parents who adopt neglectful style.

The relationship between parents and children and human development has been the greatest interest to Psychology because it impacts the youth's behaviour and well being. Thus, this study aimed to investigate parental styles adopted by adolescents' parents from a combination of responsiveness and demandingness dimensions as well as by gender and age group. 296 adolescents aged 14 to 19 years (M=16.03; DP=0.96), high school students from public and private schools in the city of Passo Fundo/RS and surrounding area participated of this study. We used a sociodemographic data questionnaire constructed for the study and Scale of Parental Responsiveness and Demandingness. The analysis revealed that there was a balance between the perception of neglectful (33.1%) e authoritative (32.7%) styles, followed by authoritarian (17.3%) and permissive (16.9%) styles. There were no statistical differences between responsiveness and demandingness and sex. The younger adolescents perceive their mothers as significantly more demanding when compared to the older ones. The same occured with the combined demandingness. The results also indicate that there were statistically significant differences in the perception of responsiveness and demandingness by age group. The findings of this study suggest further investigations, relating parental styles with other variables of influence and evidence the need of parental training for parents who adopt neglectful style. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the last decades, the bullying phenomenon had countless repercussions, however, it still remains an issue that need to be addressed according to a comprehensive and relational approach of young's experiences. The present study aims to analyse the perceived parenting styles (either to mother or the father) and to test their involvement on bullying behaviours, as well as to test the mediating role of the psychopathological symptomatology in last association. The study sample consisted of 1976 adolescents and young adults aged between 14 and 25 years old (M = 17.22, SD = 2.50). The results indicate a significant effect of parenting styles regarding to bullying behaviours, as well as the existence of a mediation role of psychopathological symptomatology in the association between parenting styles and bullying behaviours. The results will be discussed in light of Baumrind's theory, assuming the importance of parenting styles to the psychological and behavioural development in adolescents and young adults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Suicidal ideations in adolescents, paternal affiliations and attachment to peers. This study analyzes possible predictors variables about suicidal ideation in nonclínical teenagers, like parental socialization style (authoritarian, authoritative, indulgent and negligent) and attachment to peers. The sample is formed by 204 Spanish students from different academic centers whose age are between 12 and 18 years (M= 14.29; SD= 1.59). The results wich have been got have revealed greater suicidal ideation in teenagers with a low level of trust and communication in their relationship with their peers, as in those ones with authoritarian and negligent parents. It has not been observed differences between genus or age ranges. In agreement with the suicidal negative ideation explicative model, has been found peer alienation group, in the same form, having an authoritarian mother, establish risk factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the last decades several authors have indicated that being an adopted child resulted in a higher risk of psychological maladjustment. The objective of this research was to investigate the changes in perception of parental styles in adopted and no-adopted adolescents Brazilians. The sample comprised 524 adolescents (68 were adopted and 456 were raised by their biological parents). The instruments used were a demographic questionnaire and theResponsiveness Scales and Parental Demands. The findings indicated that adoptive parents are significantly more indulgent than biological parents. In comparison, the adolescents described their biological parents as more negligent. The findings corroborated the transcultural effects of parental styles on the psychological adjustment and confirmed the hypothesis that the parental socialization strategies moderate the development of adoptedadolescent.

Na tentativa de compreender o consumo abusivo de álcool e outras drogas durante a adolescência, inúmeras pesquisas têm apontado a família como um importante fator de risco ou proteção. Diante disso, o presente artigo teve por objetivo realizar uma revisão sistemática a respeito de trabalhos científicos sobre a associação entre os estilos e práticas parentais de socialização e o consumo de substâncias psicoativas entre adolescentes. Os artigos foram pesquisados em três bancos de dados - Medline, Adolec e Pubmed, sendo utilizados dois descritores de busca bibliográfica: parental styles e parental monitoring juntamente com substance use. A amostra final se constituiu de 30 artigos, provenientes de diferentes países. Através dos resultados deste trabalho, foi possível constatar uma significativa associação entre o consumo abusivo de álcool e outras drogas na adolescência e os estilos e práticas parentais. Estes achados apontam a importância de se conhecer essa relação no contexto brasileiro.En el intento de comprenderse el consumo abusivo de alcohol y otras drogas durante la adolescencia, innúmeras investigaciones apuntan la familia como un importante factor de riesgo o protección. Así, el presente artículo tuvo como objetivo realizar una revisión sistemática sobre trabajos científicos relativos a la asociación entre los estilos y prácticas parentales de socialización y el consumo de sustancias psicoactivas entre adolescentes. Los artículos fueran investigados en tres bancos de datos - Medline, Adolec y Pubmed, siendo utilizados dos descriptores en la búsqueda bibliográfica: parental styles y parental monitoring juntamente con substance use. La muestra final fue constituida por 30 artículos provenientes de diferentes países. A través de los resultados de este trabajo, fue posible constatar una significativa asociación entre el consumo abusivo de alcohol y otras drogas en la adolescencia y los estilos y prácticas parentales. Estos hallazgos apuntan la importancia de conocer esta relación en el contexto brasileño.In order to understand alcohol and other drugs abusive consumption during adolescence, several researches have pointed out the family as an important risk or protection factor. This study aims to accomplish a systematic review of scientific papers regarding the association between parental styles and socialization practices and psychoactive substances consumption among adolescents. The articles were researched in three databases - Medline, Adolec and Pubmed -, using two terms in order to restrict the bibliographic search: parental styles and parental monitoring together with substance use. The final sample was constituted of 30 papers from different countries. We could verify a significant association between alcohol and other drugs abusive consumption in adolescence and parental styles and practices. Such findings demonstrate the importance of getting to know this relationship in the Brazilian context.

Diverse works have associated externalizing problem behavior with impulsivity, parental styles, and attitudes toward violence. The aim of this study is to analyze the association between these variables and externalizing behavior. A cross-sectional correlational design was used with a sample of 252 adolescents, aged between 12 and 15 years, from the general population. The results obtained indicate a significant association of externalization with high impulsivity, ingrained attitudes toward violence, and inconsistent parental styles, as well as gender and age differences. These results are discussed in relation with the influence of gender stereotypes and their implications in the development of attitudes toward violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Relationship between parents and children is significantly important for the forming of identity and its affective component of self-esteem. High and stable self-esteem is being developed in certain family conditions through parental influences to which a child is exposed within a family. In this research the results of a role of different parental styles have been presented in forming of stable self-esteem in adolescents. The research has been done in eight secondary school in Niš. The sample was done on N=280 pupils with Global Self-Esteem Rosenberg's scale, and EMBU parental styles scale of Perris-Arrindell's version. This research has shown that stable self-esteem in adolescents is being connected to mother’s emotional warmth and acceptance through the process of parenting. Unstable self-evaluations are connected to inconsistency and overprotection, while rejection leads to stable, but low self-evaluations.

We analyzed the links between parental styles, practices, and empathy and specific forms of prosocial behaviors in early adolescence. The Argentine scale of perception of relationships with parents for children and young adolescents, prosocial tendencies measure, parenting practices measure, and children's perception of parental empathy were administered to a sample of 289 middle class children, aged 10-16, of both sexes, from primary and secondary schools in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Correlations and hierarchical regressions were used to examine (1) relationships between parental styles, children's perception of parental empathy, parental practices, and children's prosocial behavior, (2) the amount of unique prediction from parental styles, children's perception of parental empathy, and parental practices to children's prosocial behavior. Results indicated that different aspects of parental actions (parental styles, practice, and empathy) have a differential relation according to the type of prosocial behavior involved. When taking these three kinds of parental behavior into account, parental styles are related to public and responsive aspects especially through extreme control by the mother. Parental practices, in turn, are related mainly with anonymous and altruistic aspects, but with this latter negatively. Finally, adolescents' perception of parental empathy explains added variance in all the cases, though to a lesser extent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports research on family socialization of dominance values among adolescents. Dominance values were studied as expressed in Hierarchic Self-Interest (HSI), a value pattern that is typical for highly competitive market-oriented societies and has negative behavioural consequences. In analyzing socialization, the study concentrates on authoritarian and achievement-focused parenting, as well as structural and ideological predictors thereof. The relevance of HSI for attitudes and behaviours is studied by considering xenophobia and delinquency as its consequences. Using panel data of 443 families (mothers, fathers, and adolescent offspring) from Berlin (Germany), a structural equation model is estimated. Results show that adolescent HSI can be traced back to social-structural variables and parenting modes, but also develops through intergenerational value transmission. It has assumed negative consequences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article assesses whether perceived parental style influenced the extent to which adolescents became increasingly conscientious and whether changes in con- scientiousness influenced academic grades 1 year later. Parental styles, conscientiousness, verbal, and numerical ability at Time 1 were measured. One year later conscientiousness was again assessed, and 1 year after that end-of-year exam results were obtained. More than 784 students (mean age = 12.3 years, SD = 0.49) participated in the 1st year. The data of 563 students were matched across the 3 years. Conscientiousness tended to decrease from Time 1 to Time 2. Structural equation modeling showed that adolescents with more authoritative parents experienced less of a decrease in conscientiousness at Time 2 than did students with less authoritative parents and the same baseline level of conscientiousness at Time 1. Additionally, the decrease in conscientiousness at Time 2 predicted worse grades at Time 3, even after controlling for baseline levels of academic achievement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cross-cultural evidence on the gender gap in delinquency is presented. Based on power-control theory (PCT), gender differences in aggressive behaviour are analysed. We assume that differences in labour force participation between father and mother lead to differences in parental control behaviour towards boys and girls, which in turn lead to different risk-taking preferences and eventually produce gender differences in aggressive behaviour. A revised PCT acknowledges that dominance ideologies also play a role in the genesis of gender differences in delinquency. This proposition is also tested. Analyses are based on data from 319 families (father, mother and two adolescent opposite-sex siblings) from West Berlin, East Berlin and Toronto. The findings support assumptions of PCT but differ substantially between the three cities. Evidence of the link between structural patriarchy and parental style - postulated in the original PCT - is found in East Berlin, whereas the West Berlin and Toronto results fit a modified version of PCT featuring gender-role attitudes (ideological patriarchy). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]