parental discipline
collocation in Englishmeaningsofparentalanddiscipline
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parental
adjective
uk/pəˈren.təl/us/pəˈren.t̬əl/
relating to parents or to being ...
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discipline
noun
uk/ˈdɪs.ə.plɪn/us/ˈdɪs.ə.plɪn/
training that makes people more willing to obey or more able to control themselves, often in the form of rules, and punishments if these are broken, or the behaviour produced by ...
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(Definition ofparentalanddisciplinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The emphasis uponparentaldisciplinepractices as a causal mechanism is supported by the evidence from the experimental manipulation studies cited earlier.
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The path from hyperactivity to antisocial reflects the presence of a third variable that they share in common: disruptedparentaldisciplinepractices.
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Parentaldisciplinethat was harsh, intrusive, and inconsistent predicted externalizing problems, but only for children with a greater sense of containment.
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When the latent construct forparentaldisciplinewas entered, the correlation between hyperactive and antisocial behavior became nonsignificant.
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The findings showed that latent constructs forparentaldisciplineand monitoring account for 30-52% of the variance in latent constructs for antisocial behaviors.
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The hypothesized mechanism ofparentaldisciplinewas, in turn, correlated with both antisocial and peer relational problems.
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A second question addressed in this study is whether high levels of harshparentaldisciplinepredict both emotional and behavioral outcomes during adolescence.
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Mediators assessing inconsistentparentaldisciplineand boys' attributional biases had at least trend effects on several of the outcomes.
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There are a number of non-shared environmental variables - for example,parentaldiscipline, parental involvement, peer influence - that could conceivably contribute to this behaviour.
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Moreover, this relation was found to be independent of the quality ofparentaldiscipline.
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We next examined whether harshparentaldisciplinewould be linked to adolescent displays of autonomy and relatedness in interactions with each parent.
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At the level of the family, relevant examples include inconsistent or harshparentaldiscipline, as opposed to emotionally responsive caregiving.
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A repetition of these episodes over time underminesparentaldisciplineand may result in disturbances in caregiver - child bonding, with concomitant disconnection from family ties.
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We hypothesized that this path reflected a shared mechanism, disruptedparentaldiscipline.
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A major limitation of this study was that data onparentaldisciplineand adolescent problem behavior was obtained retrospectively from the child and parents when most children had reached adulthood.
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Furthermore, experiments using random assignment designs showed that parent training effectively increasedparentaldisciplineeffectiveness; and this, in turn, was associated with reduced child noncompliance and antisocial behavior.
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Our measures of family functioning were a close parent-youth relationship, the degree to which parents allowed autonomous behavior to their offspring, and the effectiveness ofparentaldiscipline.
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An alternative account might be developed, however, in which externalizing problems are associated with laxparentaldisciplineonly when the child has contact with antisocial peers.
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The child's perception of the severity of parental treatment will increase to the extent thatparentaldisciplineexceeds the child's perception of his or her "deservingness" for punishment.
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Model 3 revealed a significant interaction betweenparentaldisciplineand child containment that explained an additional 5% of the variance in children's problem behavior.
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