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Understanding Parenting Styles Explained

The document outlines four main parenting styles: authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and neglectful, each characterized by varying levels of demandingness and responsiveness. Authoritative parenting is deemed the most effective, fostering confidence and critical thinking in children, while authoritarian and neglectful styles can lead to mental health issues and behavioral problems. Permissive parenting may result in undisciplined children who lack boundaries, potentially leading to misconduct.

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Understanding Parenting Styles Explained

The document outlines four main parenting styles: authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and neglectful, each characterized by varying levels of demandingness and responsiveness. Authoritative parenting is deemed the most effective, fostering confidence and critical thinking in children, while authoritarian and neglectful styles can lead to mental health issues and behavioral problems. Permissive parenting may result in undisciplined children who lack boundaries, potentially leading to misconduct.

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Parenting styles

Demandingness - The extent of rules and limits established for


the child
Responsiveness - The degree of support and affection displayed
towards the child

Authoritative Authoritarian

High in demandingness High in demandingness


High in responsiveness Low in responsiveness
Characteristics Characteristics
Affectionate, accepting and supportive Strict, controlling and unsupportive
Enforce rules and provides reasoning Imposes rules and expects obedience
Helps child understand the consequences without provide reasoning
of their behaviour Uses corporal punishment when child
misbehaves
Child will be confident, self-reliant,
disciplined, and capable of critical Child may develop mental health issues
thinking. Hence, it is widely considered to such as anxiety due to stress, and display
be the best parenting style. rebellious tendencies and aggression.

Permissive Neglectful
Low in demandingness Low in demandingness
High in responsiveness Low in responsiveness
Characteristics Characteristics
Indulgent but supportive Uninvolved, cold and unsupportive
Doesn't enforce rules or impose limits Doesn't enforce rules nor provide guidance
Allows child to misbehave Indifferent to child's wants and needs

Child will be spoiled, undisciplined, and may Child may develop antisocial behavior and
be involved in misconduct and delinquency as mental health issues such as anxiety and
they are unaware of boundaries. depression due to the lack of emotional support.

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Febiyanti, A., & Rachmawati, Y. (2021). Is authoritative parenting the best parenting style? Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Early Childhood Education (ICECE 2020). [Link]

Reference Kuppens, S., & Ceulemans, E. (2018). Parenting styles: A closer look at a well-known concept. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 28(1), 168–181. [Link]
Louis, J. P. (2022). The Young Parenting Inventory (YPI-R3), and the Baumrind, Maccoby and Martin Parenting Model: Finding common ground. Children, 9(2), 159. [Link]
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