Factors Associated with Good and Harsh Parenting of Pre-Adolescents and Adolescents in Southern Africa

Sachin De Stone, Franziska Meinck, Lorraine Sherr, Lucie Cluver, Jenny Doubt, Frederick Mark Orkin, Caroline Kuo, Amogh Sharma, Imca Hensels, Sarah Skeen, Alice Redfern, Mark Tomlinson and Office of Research - Innocenti Unicef

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Abstract: This working paper presents findings from the analyses of two different observational studies of caregiver-pre-adolescent (4-13 years, referred to as the ‘pre-adolescent study’) and caregiver-adolescent (10-17 years, referred to as the ‘adolescent study’) dyads. Regression and structural equation modelling techniques are used to identify practices constituting good and harsh parenting, factors associated with these parenting behaviours and child and adolescent outcomes. Good parenting in pre-adolescents was associated with fewer educational risks and behavioural problems as well as increased self-esteem, mediated by child trauma and depression. In adolescents, family disadvantage (poverty, AIDS-ill caregiver and caregiver disability) were found to be associated with an increase in harsh parenting and poor caregiver mental health, both of which were associated with increased adolescent health risks.

Keywords: adolescents; parent-child relationship; parental deprivation; parental guidance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48
Date: 2016
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