Parental Self-efficacy in Promoting Children Care and Parenting Quality

Loredana Benedetto and Massimo Ingrassia

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Abstract: Parental self-efficacy (PSE) emerges as a crucial variable into exploring variability in parenting quality. After introducing the link between PSE and parental competence, the role of PSE on parenting quality, its multiple influences, and transactional effects connected to contextual or cultural variables are discussed. The chapter addresses some key issues: (a) the levels of PSE measurement (i.e., domain- or task-specific approach), their interrelationship and magnitude as mutual predictors (study 1); (b) infant-caring, parent's adjustment, and PSE development in the transition to parenthood (study 2); (c) parenting difficult children and the role of PSE as a "buffer" variable moderating the effects of negative child's characteristics on parenting skills; and (d) PSE beliefs in family context, the relationships with other family measures (marital self-efficacy and stress), and their associations with children's adjustments (study 3). Finally, in the study 4, PSE is presented as an outcome variable in a parent training. In all summarized studies, a special attention was devoted to father's PSE as a specific factor affecting childrearing and parent's well-being. As Bandura says, PSE is not a personality trait, but a learnable set of beliefs producing positive effects on parenting quality. Suggestions for family-based interventions enhancing PSE are discussed.

Keywords: parental self-efficacy; parental competence; family-based interventions; family relationships (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D80 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.68933

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