Parenting Style Dimensions As Predictors of Adolescent Antisocial Behavior.

ABSTRACT: Antisocial behavior is strongly associated with academic failure in adolescence. There is a solid body of evidence that points to parenting style as one of its main predictors. The objective of this work is to elaborate a reduced, valid, and reliable version of the questionnaire by Oliva et al. (2007) to evaluate the dimensions of parenting style and to analyze its psychometric properties in a sample of Spanish adolescents. To that end, the designed questionnaire was applied to 1974 adolescents 12-18 years of age from Asturias (Spain). Regarding construct validity, the results show that the model that best represents the data is composed of six dimensions of parenting style, just as in the original scale, namely affection and communication; promotion of autonomy; behavioral control; psycho

SUBMITTER: Alvarez-Garcia D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5020069 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature