| dc.contributor.author | Marc H Bornstein, Diane L Putnick, Jennifer E Lansford, Suha M Al-Hassan, Dario Bacchini, Anna Silvia Bombi, Concetta Pastorelli, Lei Chang, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Laura Di Giunta, Kenneth A Dodge, Patrick S Malone, Ann T Skinner, Paul Oburu, Emma Sorbring, Laurence Steinberg, Sombat Tapanya, Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado, Arnaldo Zelli, Liane Peña Alampay | |
| dc.description.abstract | Background:
Most studies of the effects of parental religiousness on parenting and child development focus on a particular religion or cultural group, which limits generalizations that can be made about the effects of parental religiousness on family life.
Methods:
We assessed the associations among parental religiousness, parenting, and children’s adjustment in a 3-year longitudinal investigation of 1,198 families from nine countries. We included four religions (Catholicism, Protestantism, Buddhism, and Islam) plus unaffiliated parents, two positive (efficacy and warmth) and two negative (control and rejection) parenting practices, and two positive (social competence and school performance) and two negative (internalizing and externalizing) child outcomes. Parents and children were informants.
Results:
Greater parent religiousness had both positive and negative associations with parenting and child adjustment … | en_US |
