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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Educational Psychology
  • Child Language Acquisition

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  • Home literacy environment influences children's language skills, but its impact on reading may be overestimated.
  • Parenting styles, a key aspect of parent-child relationships, have not been previously studied in relation to literacy development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of parenting styles in children's reading processes.
  • To determine if children's perceptions of parenting styles contribute to explaining variance in reading skills.

Main Methods:

  • 110 children (7-11 years) completed socio-demographic, reading process (PROLEC-R), and parenting style (EMBU-P and EMBU-C) questionnaires.
  • Multiple hierarchical linear regressions were used to analyze the data.

Main Results:

  • Individual factors explained all reading tests, while family factors explained most.
  • Parenting styles significantly explained variance in grammatical structures, sentence comprehension, and listening skills.
  • Parenting styles were important for higher reading processes (syntactic, semantic) but not lexical processes.

Conclusions:

  • Parenting styles play a crucial role in the development of children's reading comprehension and syntactic/semantic understanding.
  • While home literacy is important, parenting styles offer additional explanatory power for reading skills, especially in more complex aspects of reading.