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Comparative Study
. 1994 Jun;65(3):754-70.
doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1994.tb00781.x.

Over-time changes in adjustment and competence among adolescents from authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, and neglectful families

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Comparative Study

Over-time changes in adjustment and competence among adolescents from authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, and neglectful families

L Steinberg et al. Child Dev. 1994 Jun.

Abstract

In a previous report, we demonstrated that adolescents' adjustment varies as a function of their parents' style (e.g., authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, neglectful). This 1-year follow-up was conducted in order to examine whether the observed differences are maintained over time. In 1987, an ethnically and socioeconomically heterogeneous sample of approximately 2,300 14-18-year-olds provided information used to classify the adolescents' families into 1 of 4 parenting style groups. That year, and again 1 year later, the students completed a battery of standardized instruments tapping psychosocial development, school achievement, internalized distress, and behavior problems. Differences in adjustment associated with variations in parenting are either maintained or increase over time. However, whereas the benefits of authoritative parenting are largely in the maintenance of previous levels of high adjustment, the deleterious consequences of neglectful parenting continue to accumulate.

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