Domain-Specific Parenting Styles and Their Impact on the Child's Development of Particular Deviance: The Example of Obesity Proneness

A domain-specfic model for the parenting of deviant dispositions in children is proposed in this paper. The model offered is predicated on the notion that in areas of “dev unit” behavior, parents' concerns and parents' constraints on children coalesce to produce eventual problems in self-control. Such problems tend to intensify the originally deviant adjustment, or tend to create disregulatory problems in children who have previously evidenced no obvious difficulties In order to explore the viability of the domain-specific model of parenting, four studies probing factors relevant to the socialization ol obesity-prone behavior are summarized. The outcomes of this research are reasonably congruent with the model and otter some promise of its general applicability to the study of the parenting factors involved in the development of deviant dispositions