Relationships between Parent-Reported Parenting, Child-Perceived Parenting, and Children’s Mental Health in Taiwanese Children

Ching-Yu Huang, Yi-Ping Hsieh, April Chiung-Tao Shen, Hsi-Sheng Wei, Jui-Ying Feng, Hsiao-Lin Hwa and Joyce Yen Feng
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Ching-Yu Huang: Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University, Fern Barrow BH12 5BB, UK
Yi-Ping Hsieh: Department of Social Work, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202, USA
April Chiung-Tao Shen: Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan
Hsi-Sheng Wei: Department of Social Work, National Taipei University, New Taipei City 23741, Taiwan
Jui-Ying Feng: Department of Nursing, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City 701, Taiwan
Hsiao-Lin Hwa: Department and Graduate Institute of Forensic Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei 100, Taiwan
Joyce Yen Feng: Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 6, 1-14

Abstract: The current study examines the relationship between parents’ and children’s reports of parenting and their effects on children’s mental health symptoms. Six hundred and sixty-six parent-child dyads in Taiwan participated in this study. The parents and the children filled out the parenting questionnaires, and the children also reported their general mental health. The results demonstrated that parental-reported and child-perceived parenting were positively correlated, but parents tended to report lower scores on authoritarian parenting and higher scores on Chinese parenting than did their children. There were also significant gender differences: The mothers reported higher authoritative parenting than did the fathers; and the boys perceived higher authoritarian and Chinese-culture specific parenting than did the girls. Moreover, the Chinese parenting had a negative effect on children’s mental health outcomes. Finally, our results showed that children’s perception of parenting had a stronger effect on children’s mental health symptoms than did parental reports on parenting, urging future research to include the children’s report when investigating the effects of parenting on children’s mental health outcomes.

Keywords: parenting; culture; gender differences; child mental health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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