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The Relationship between Parenting Types and Older Adolescents' Personality, Academic Achievement, Adjustment, and Substance Use.
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Weiss, Laura H.; Schwarz, J. Conrad – Child Development, 1996
Examined the relations between parents' child-rearing style and their older adolescent children's behavior with a sample of 178 college students and their families. Found that students from Nondirective homes had significantly higher SAT scores than students from Authoritarian-Directive and Democratic homes. Students from Unengaged homes had the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Child Rearing, Classification