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Powerful Parenting And Enabling Contexts: Lessons To Support Academic Success, Amy Conley Wright
Powerful Parenting And Enabling Contexts: Lessons To Support Academic Success, Amy Conley Wright
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Book review of: Social class and educational inequality: the impact of parents and schools, by Iram Siraj and Aziza Mayo, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2014, 330 pp., £65 (hardback), ISBN 9781107018051
What Is Good Parenting? The Perspectives Of Different Professionals, Philippa M. Eve, Mitchell K. Byrne, Cinzia R. Gagliardi,
What Is Good Parenting? The Perspectives Of Different Professionals, Philippa M. Eve, Mitchell K. Byrne, Cinzia R. Gagliardi,
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Defining parenting, and good parenting in particular, is a complex task wrought with ambiguities. This creates problems in agreeing on a standard parenting capacity assessment, particularly in relation to strengths as opposed to weaknesses. To address this lack of consensus, the current study explored the convergence and divergence of different professional groups' opinions on good parenting. A mixed-methods design was employed, with semi-structured interviews and rating scales administered to 19 professionals with experience in parenting capacity assessments. Data were analyzed using a constructivist grounded theory. The findings suggest that, in general, professionals agree on main themes of good parenting, including …
Parental Employment And Child Behaviors: Do Parenting Practices Underlie These Relationships?, Renata Hadzic, Christopher A. Magee, Laura Robinson
Parental Employment And Child Behaviors: Do Parenting Practices Underlie These Relationships?, Renata Hadzic, Christopher A. Magee, Laura Robinson
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
This study examined whether hours of parental employment were associated with child behaviors via parenting practices. The sample included 2,271 Australian children aged 4-5 years at baseline. Two-wave panel mediation models tested whether parenting practices that were warm, hostile, or characterized by inductive reasoning linked parent's hours of paid employment with their child's behavior at age 6-7 years. There were significant indirect effects linking mother employment to child behavior. No paid employment and full-time work hours were associated with more behavioral problems in children through less-warm parenting practices; few hours or long hours were associated with improved behavioral outcomes through …