32-5 Impact of Socio-economic Backgrounds, Experience of being Disciplined in Early Childhood, and Parenting Value on Parenting Styles of Preschool Children' s Parents
| Chunn-Ying Lin Hsin-Yi Chiu Chih-Chun Yeh |
| National Dong Hwa University |
Previous studies have shown that parental parenting styles have significant influence on children's future physical/mental development, learning, and life adaptation. However, the factors that affect parenting styles have not been well researched in these studies, and studies that focus on the preschool stage are particularly rare. Therefore, this study collected data from 986 parents whose children were in kindergartens in Hualien County/City, Taiwan during 2008. A path model was tested on factors hypothesized to affect parenting styles of preschool children's parents. Parenting value was included in the model as the mediator in the relations of socio-economic backgrounds and experience of being disciplined in early childhood to parenting styles. We also explored if parenting styles were affected by socialization and intergenerational transmission. Major findings are as follows: (1) Most of the parents adopted the ”enlightened” style to discipline their children, but the ”authoritarian and punitive” style was also commonly used. Compared with their own parents, these parents adopted the ”enlightened” style more frequently than the ”authoritarian and punitive” style. (2) Parenting styles had less significant difference among socio-economic background variables. (3) The experience of being disciplined in early childhood and parents' parenting value were associated with their current parenting styles. (4) The difference in parenting styles among parents with different experience of being disciplined in early childhood could partly be attributed to their parenting value. The above results suggest that parenting styles of preschool children's parents are significantly affected by socialization and intergenerational transmission.
Keywords
experience of being disciplined in early childhood、intergenerational transmission、parenting styles、parenting value、preschool education、socio-economic Backgrounds、socialization
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