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W.F. Lau, & H.K. Yuen. (2013). Adolescents’ risky online behaviours: The influence of gender, religion, and parenting style. Computers in Human Behavior, 29(6), 2690-2696.
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This study was conducted with a sample of 825 students who were in the 8th grade during the 2011/2012 academic year in Hong Kong. An online survey was used and it was a self-reported questionnaire. This study was used to explore the influence that gender, religion, and different parenting styles had on different risky online behaviors that these students had. The "risky" behavior that was looked at was unauthorized acts, internet stickiness, and plagiarism. Gender and risky behavior has been investigated for a long time. Most of the studies that have been conducted show that males engage in more risky online behavior compared to females. When it came to religion and risky online behaviors, there was not much of a correlation. Whether students were religious or not, they all had some sort of risky behaviors. Looking at parenting styles and risky online behaviors was interesting. There were four parenting styles that were identified: authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and neglectful. It was shown that none of the parenting styles were linked to a reduction in the risky online behavior. Parents who had permission and monitoring styles were associated with an increase in risk-taking. Results from this study and previous studies showed that parental mediation strategies were not very effective when it came to trying to lower the online risks. In conclusion, the study showed that parents, teachers and researchers need to collaborate in order to nurture present generation of children exposed to online risks on a daily basis.
Blissett, J., Meyer, C., & Haycraft, E. (2011). The role of parenting in the relationship between childhood eating problems and broader behaviour problems. Child Care, Health and Development, 37(5), 642-648.
The objective of this study was to look at whether different parenting styles had an affect on whether children developed eating disorders or behavioral problems. In the midlands of the UK, mothers were recruited through various primary schools and private nurseries who care for preschool children. Questionnaires were distributed among 77 mothers with children ages 3-8 years. There were maternal reports of eating behaviors, feeding practices, parenting styles and children’s strengths and difficulties. The hypothesis was “that less adaptive parenting style would be related to perceptions of greater behavioral problems, more dysfunctional eating behaviors and more dysfunctional feeding practices was not supported, except that permissive parenting was associated with greater fussy eating, more conduct problems, more hyperactive behavior and higher maternal ratings of total behavioral problems”. The results showed that mothers who reported their children to be very responsive to food had also reported that their children showed more hyperactivity. The results also showed that emotional undereating was more common in children who had higher total behavior problem scores and the food fussiness was more severe in children whose mothers also reported them to have high levels of conduct problems, hyperactivity and total behavior difficulties. In the end, there was no specific link between eating disorders and behavioral problems and parenting styles.
Tabory, E., & Hazan-Stern, S. (2013). Bonds of Silence: Parents and Children Cope with Dissonant Levels of Religiosity. Contemporary Jewry, 33(3).
LINK: http://www.jstor.org.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/stable/43548367 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (If the link doens't allow you to view the entire article, use your UW NetID to login and view the article)
In this study, a sample of Jewish parents, and children who are no longer Jewish were interviewed to understand the parent-child relationship and dynamic that exists when a child grows up and does not embrace the religious identity of the parent, or switches to a different religious identity. The study found that parent's tended to avoid conversations about their children's switch of religious identity as a way to avoid conflict with their child, did not speak or want to speak about the religious change at all, told neighbors and friends that their children went away for school or the military (this study was done in Israel, where there is mandatory military service) during religious holidays as a way to maintain face and continue the facade that their child was still religious as a way to maintain respect and dignity for the family, and parents express feelings of shame, embarrassment, and guilt as a result of their child's switch of religious identity.
Holman, A., & Kellas, J. K. (2018). Say something instead of nothing: Adolescents’ perceptions of memorable conversations about sex-related topics with their parents. Communication Monographs, 1-23.
LINK: https://doi-org.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/10.1080/03637751.2018.1426870 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (If the link doesn't allow you to view the entire article, use your UW NetID to login and view the article)
In this study, 389 adolescents took online questionnaires regarding parent-child perceptions of sex and communication about sex-related concepts and activities, and found that when parents engaged in explicit conversations about sex in relation to safety, talking about the different aspects of sexual activity, and told stories about their sexual experiences to their children, it helped children to be more prepared for sex, sexual activity, and safety, and helped create effective communication about sex between parents and children.
In this study, researchers set out to examine published studies done on the effects of spanking. After shifting through studies and eliminating ones that were not relevant or were just based on belief, they eventually came to 111 studies. They found that of these studies, spanking was correlated with a higher chance of a child to be more aggressive, antisocial, have greater mental health problems, and have a negative relationship with their parents.
In this philosophy essay, Claudia Mills discusses whether it should be a parent’s goal to raise their child to have an open future with as many options open to them as possible, or whether to lead them towards a life in which we feel they should go. Mills says it is meaningless to try to think in terms of an open future, and that rather we are always opening and closing our own opportunities.
Kane, E.W. "No way my boys are going to be like that: Parents' responses to children's gender nonconformity," Gender & Society. Sage publications. 2006.
This is an article I read from another class that really struck me it consists of multiple interviews with parents and their views of their child's non gender conforming attitudes even from a young age. And it shows the tendency for parents to be 'progressive' or rather accepting to an extent. At time their reasoning for this, we'll use the word trepidation to be nice, is to try to keep their child from facing ridicule or judgement from their peers. It is strictly from a parents perspective and does not go so far as to look at the effects of this gender confinement on the children.
Ward, Janie Victoria. Raising Resisters: The Role of truth telling in the psychological development of African American Girls. 1996.
This article discusses the role African American parents play in preparing their children, specifically girls, for facing a world in which they will be discriminated against. It is an academic text that discusses how they attempt to prepare their children to care for and support themselves, as well as how they attempt to diminish the assault on their self esteem in a society where people of color discriminated against because of how they look.
