Paternal activation parenting and growth in children's inhibitory control across early childhood.

ABSTRACT: Activation parenting (AP) is a parenting construct derived from research and theory on paternal caregiving that includes behaviors that challenge children to approach novel situations, explore their environments, and take physical and socioemotional risks through a balance of encouragement and limit-setting. Although components of AP have been linked to different domains of children's self-regulation skills, comprehensive measures of AP and longitudinal research on families from low socioeconomic backgrounds are lacking. These limitations greatly constrain our understanding of the potential benefits of paternal AP for children's self-regulation development, including the maturation of inhibitory control (IC) in early childhood. Thus, the present study tested associations between paternal A

SUBMITTER: Feldman JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11736913 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature