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Proactive parenting practices during early adolescence: a cluster approach.

Laura M Padilla-Walker¹, Katherine J Christensen, Randal D Day

¹Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, United States. laura_walker@byu.edu

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Area of Science:

Developmental Psychology
Family Studies
Sociology

Background:

Understanding proactive parenting is crucial for child development.
Parenting practices can be influenced by various factors, including family dynamics and child characteristics.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore clusters of proactive parenting practices.
To examine how these clusters vary based on parental demographics, parent-child relationship quality, and adolescent traits.

Main Methods:

Utilized data from the Flourishing Families Project (500 families with early adolescents).
Employed a typological approach to analyze parenting practices.

Main Results:

Identified four distinct clusters of proactive parenting practices, consistent for mothers and fathers.
Proactive parenting clusters were significantly associated with parental demographics (religiosity, ethnicity, education) and adolescent characteristics (empathy, internalizing/externalizing behaviors).

Conclusions:

A typological approach is valuable for studying parenting.
Parents' use of 'pre-arming' to preemptively address potential misbehavior is a key proactive strategy.