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February 1, 1991The Journal of Early Adolescence

The Influence of Parenting Style on Adolescent Competence and Substance Use

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DBDiana Baumrind

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Overview

Longitudinal study reveals authoritative parenting protects against problem drug use and fosters competence in adolescents, highlighting the protective benefits of balanced parental responsiveness.

Key Points

  • To examine how specific parenting styles and family socialization patterns affect adolescent competence and patterns of substance use.
  • Assessed independent parent and child ratings longitudinally across ages 4, 9, and 15 years as part of the Family Socialization and Developmental Competence project.
  • Evaluated N=139 adolescents and their parents at Time 3 within a predominantly affluent, well-educated, Caucasian cohort.
  • Categorized parenting types based on variations in parental commitment, demandingness, and responsiveness.
  • Authoritative parenting, marked by high demandingness and high responsiveness, consistently shielded adolescents from problem drug use and fostered developmental competence.
  • An authoritative upbringing was found to be sufficient, though not strictly necessary, to produce competent adolescents.
  • Casual recreational drug use showed no association with precursive or concurrent pathological attributes, whereas nonusers demonstrated a marked increase in competence between age 9 and age 15.

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Diana Baumrind (1991) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d8cf73b0225cae72bedd4ahttps://doi.org/10.1177/0272431691111004
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