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Parenting: Science and Practice

Volume 5, Number , April-June 2005

EMPIRICAL ARTICLES

Neighborhood Correlates of Cultural Differences in Perceived Effectiveness of Parental Disciplinary Tactics
 Margaret O'Brien Caughy and Luisa Franzini

Attitudes about the effectiveness of parental discipline strategies vary among different racial/ethnic groups and are affected by neighborhood characteristics.

Can a Child-Problem Focused Intervention Reduce Mothers' Stress?
Monica Östberg, Berit Hagekull, Lene Lindberg, and Margareta Dannaeus

An individually tailored intervention influences maternal stress connected to young children's feeding and sleeping problems.

Six Dimensions of Parenting:  A Motivational Model
 Ellen Skinner, Sandy Johnson, and Tatiana Snyder

Structural analyses of parent- and child-report assessments reveal that six core features of parenting -- warmth, rejection, structure, chaos, autonomy support, and coercion -- are better represented as multiple (not bipolar) dimensions.