Longitudinal Trajectories of Four Domains of Parenting in Relation to Adolescent Age and Puberty in Nine Countries

• Main Authors: Lansford, Jennifer E, Rothenberg, W. Andrew, Riley, Jilian, Tirado, Liliana Maria Uribe, Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean, Alampay, Liane Peña, Al-Hassan, Suha M, Bacchini, Dario, Bornstein, Marc H, Chang, Lei, Deater-Deckard, Kirby, Di Giunta, Laura, Dodge, Kenneth A, Gurdal, Sevtap, Liu, Qin, Long, Qian, Malone, Patrick S, Oburu, Paul, Pastorelli, Concetta, Skinner, Ann T, Sorbing, Emma, Tapanya, Sombat, Steinberg, Laurence
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2021
• Subjects: Child Psychology; Family, Life Course, and Society; Psychology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/psychology-faculty-pubs/351; https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cdev.13526
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Children, mothers, and fathers in 12 ethnic and regional groups in nine countries (N = 1,338 families) were interviewed annually for 8 years (Mage child = 8–16 years) to model four domains of parenting as a function of child age, puberty, or both. Latent growth curve models revealed that for boys and girls, parents decrease their warmth, behavioral control, rules/limit-setting, and knowledge solicitation in conjunction with children’s age and pubertal status as children develop from ages 8 to 16 across a range of diverse contexts, with steeper declines after age 11 or 12 in three of the four parenting domains. National, ethnic, and regional differences and similarities in the trajectories as a function of age and puberty are discussed.