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Direct linkElena Camisasca; Alessandra Bavagnoli; Elisabetta Lombardi; Mark E. Feinberg – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2025
This study aims to preliminarily validate the Italian version of the Coparenting Relationship Scale for Children (CRS-C) with 141 mothers, 141 fathers, and 141 children (48.6% males) aged 8-14 years. We tested the factorial structure of the CRS-C, which included five factors (support, endorsement, undermining, agreement, and exposure to conflict),…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Childrens Attitudes
Parents' Reflective Functioning and Stress: The Associations with Preschoolers' Social Understanding
Emiddia Longobardi; Mara Morelli; Matilde Brunetti; Stefania Sette; Pietro Spataro; Fiorenzo Laghi – Infant Mental Health Journal: Infancy and Early Childhood, 2025
Social understanding competence develops in sensitive and co-regulating caregiver interactions. Parental reflective functioning (PRF) and parenting stress can affect children's social understanding. This study investigated if children's social understanding was associated with PRF and parenting stress. Parents of 305 Italian children aged from 24…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Stress Variables, Parent Attitudes, Interpersonal Competence
Caso, Letizia; Greco, Andrea; Florio, Eleonora; Palena, Nicola – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Parental monitoring (PM) is a key construct in research on children's well-being and healthy development referring to the attention parents pay to their children's activities and whereabouts. However, existing literature suggests that the psychometric properties of its measurement tools are still perfect. For this study, a revised Italian parental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parenting Styles, Test Construction, Test Validity
Laura Zampini; Paola Zanchi; Paolo Riva; Valentina Tobia – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
The parents of 413 children with typical development (TD) or special educational needs (SEN) filled in an online survey to investigate the associations between the restrictions introduced to face COVID-19 and parenting stress and parental disciplinary practices. The parents of children with SEN showed a significantly higher stress level than TD…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Child Rearing, Social Isolation, COVID-19
Riva Crugnola, Cristina; Tagini, Angela; Ierardi, Elena – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
The study evaluated the relationship between maternal anxiety, depression and parenting stress, and maternal mind-mindedness, styles of interaction, and mother-infant emotion regulation. At infant age 3 months, EPDS, STAI, and PSI-SF were administered to 73 mothers to respectively assess depression, anxiety, and parenting stress; mother-infant…
Descriptors: Mothers, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Stress Variables
Parental Monitoring and Youth's Binge Behaviors: The Role of Sensation Seeking and Life Satisfaction
Inguglia, Cristiano; Costa, Sebastiano; Iannello, Nicolò Maria; Liga, Francesca – Child Care in Practice, 2021
Framed within an ecological perspective of the onset of adolescent problem behaviors, the current study explored the joint role of parent-adolescents' relationships and youth's individual factors in binge eating and drinking. Firstly, in line with pieces of research highlighting the beneficial impact of effective parenting on youth development,…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, High School Students, Risk
Bornstein, Marc H.; Yu, Jing; Putnick, Diane L. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2020
In a cross-society comparison, we assessed the state of mothers' knowledge of child-rearing and child development. The study included 1,077 mothers from five countries on four continents: Argentina, Belgium, Italy, South Korea, and the United States (U.S.) A criteria-referenced instrument, the Knowledge of Infant Development Inventory, was used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Knowledge Level, Parenting Styles
Merlino-Perkins, Rose; Martinez, Jose; Barbagallo-Gregory, Carmen; Barbagallo, Antonio – College Student Journal, 2020
"Merlino-Perkins Father-Daughter Relationship Inventory" (Perkins, 2008), written in a woman's voice, provides counselors with a vehicle that helps women awaken subtle dynamics unique to their childhood father relationships. Accordingly, with counselor guidance, women have the opportunity to grieve their past, and celebrate what may be…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Fathers, Daughters, Translation
Carone, Nicola; Barone, Lavinia; Lingiardi, Vittorio; Baiocco, Roberto; Brodzinsky, David – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Thirty-one children of gay single fathers and 28 children of heterosexual single fathers, all born through surrogacy, were compared with 31 children of gay partnered fathers through surrogacy and 30 children of heterosexual partnered fathers through in-vitro fertilization on their perceptions of self-worth and their father- and caregiver-reported…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Fathers, Children, Pregnancy
Filippello, Pina; Buzzai, Caterina; Messina, Giovanna; Mafodda, Antonina Viviana; Sorrenti, Luana – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2020
The purpose of this research was to conduct an exploratory study to investigate any differences in the risk of developing school refusal in students with low academic achievement and students with specific learning disorder (SLD), and moreover to compare both groups to students with high academic achievement. Furthermore, we want to investigate…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, At Risk Students, Learning Disabilities, Self Esteem
Di Giunta, Laura; Rothenberg, W. Andrew; Lunetti, Carolina; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Pastorelli, Concetta; Eisenberg, Nancy; Thartori, Eriona; Basili, Emanuele; Favini, Ainzara; Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean; Peña Alampay, Liane; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bornstein, Marc H.; Chang, Lei; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Oburu, Paul; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria – Developmental Psychology, 2020
The present study examines parents' self-efficacy about anger regulation and irritability as predictors of harsh parenting and adolescent children's irritability (i.e., mediators), which in turn were examined as predictors of adolescents' externalizing and internalizing problems. Mothers, fathers, and adolescents (N = 1,298 families) from 12…
Descriptors: Mothers, Fathers, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response
Filippello, Pina; Harrington, Neil; Costa, Sebastiano; Buzzai, Caterina; Sorrenti, Luana – School Psychology International, 2018
The present study aims to investigate the relation between perceived parental psychological control, school learned helplessness and mastery orientation, and also to test frustration intolerance as a mediator in the relation between perceived psychological control and school learned helplessness. The sample consisted of 214 (86 male and 128…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Parenting Styles, High School Students, Late Adolescents
Skinner, Ann T.; Godwin, Jennifer; Alampay, Liane Peña; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Bacchini, Dario; Bornstein, Marc H.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Gurdal, Sevtap; Pastorelli, Concetta; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean – Developmental Psychology, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented families around the world with extraordinary challenges related to physical and mental health, economic security, social support, and education. The current study capitalizes on a longitudinal, cross-national study of parenting, adolescent development, and young adult competence to document the association…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents
Download full textScaini, Simona; Caputi, Marcella – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2018
The quality of early parent-child relationship affects children's later emotional development, social competence and school performance (Caputi, Lecce, & Pagnin, 2017). Moreover, the perception of a warm relationship with parents supports the use of adaptive social skills and approach-oriented coping strategies (Chan, 2011). Children…
Descriptors: Correlation, Psychopathology, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Coping
Filippello, Pina; Larcan, Rosalba; Sorrenti, Luana; Buzzai, Caterina; Orecchio, Susanna; Costa, Sebastiano – Improving Schools, 2017
Despite the extensive research on parental psychological control, no study has explored the relation between parental and teacher psychological control, maladaptive perfectionism and learned helplessness (LH). The purpose of this study was to investigate (1) whether perceived teacher psychological control predicts positively LH, (2) whether…
Descriptors: Role, Personality Problems, Correlation, Parenting Styles
