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Parenting Style & Adolescent Behavior

According to Papalia and Olds (1995), adolescent psychology is very much influenced by parenting style. which the authors state can be classified into three basic categories. For example, Lloyd and Miller (1997) report that several studies have found that when parents are either neglectful or overprotective, they tend to have children who develop depression and other psychoemotional problems in adolescence.

In looking up articles on parenting style and adolescent behavior, I found that a good deal of research has examined for which of the three parenting styles is the most positive contributor to adolescent behavior; for example, Chorpita and Barlow (1998) report that overcontrolling parenting styles are responsive for a good deal of adolescent anxiety, depression, and feelings of helplessness. Moreover, the authors report that when parents are authoritarian and adolescents feel that they have little control over their life circumstances, they develop a cognitive style characterized by an increased probability of interpreting or processing subsequent events as out of one's control, which may represent a psychological vulnerability for anxiety.

In researching parenting style and adolescence, I found that parenting style has often been related to adolescence's level of academic achievement and substance abuse. Regarding academic achievement Glasgow (1997) looked at parenting styles and several adolescent educational outcomes across nine heterogeneous high schools. It was found that adolescents who perceived their parents as nonauthoritative (either authoritarian or permissive) were more likely than peers to have higher levels of achievement. Moreover, teens of non-authoritative parents were more likely to attribute achievement outcomes to external causes or low ability which were identified as dysfunctional attributions. It was also found that the greater number of dysfunctional attributions h

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