Parental Acceptance-Rejection and Child Prosocial Behavior: Developmental Transactions across the Transition to Adolescence in Nine Countries, Mothers and Fathers, and Girls and Boys

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Promoting children’s prosocial behavior is a goal for parents, healthcare professionals, and nations. Does positive parenting promote later child prosocial behavior, or do children who are more prosocial elicit more positive parenting later, or both? Relations between parenting and prosocial behavior have to date been studied only in a narrow band of countries, mostly with mothers and not fathers, and child gender has infrequently been explored as a moderator of parenting – prosocial relations. This cross-national study uses 1178 families (mothers, fathers, and children) from 9 countries to explore developmental transactions between parental acceptance-rejection and girls’ and boys’ prosocial behavior across three waves (child ages 9 to 12). Controlling for stability across waves, within-wave relations, and parental age and education, higher parental acceptance predicted increased child prosocial behavior from age 9 to 10 and from age 10 to 12. Higher age 9 child prosocial behavior also predicted increased parental acceptance from age 9 to 10. These transactional paths were invariant across 9 countries, mothers and fathers, and girls and boys. Parental acceptance increases child prosocial behaviors later, but child prosocial behaviors are not effective at increasing parental acceptance in the transition to adolescence. This study identifies widely applicable socialization processes across countries, mothers and fathers, and girls and boys.

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Putnick, D (2024). Parental Acceptance-Rejection and Child Prosocial Behavior: Developmental Transactions across the Transition to Adolescence in Nine Countries, Mothers and Fathers, and Girls and Boys. Afribary. Retrieved from https://afribary.com/works/parental-acceptance-rejection-and-child-prosocial-behavior-developmental-transactions-across-the-transition-to-adolescence-in-nine-countries-mothers-and-fathers-and-girls-and-boys

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Putnick, Diane "Parental Acceptance-Rejection and Child Prosocial Behavior: Developmental Transactions across the Transition to Adolescence in Nine Countries, Mothers and Fathers, and Girls and Boys" Afribary. Afribary, 03 Oct. 2024, https://afribary.com/works/parental-acceptance-rejection-and-child-prosocial-behavior-developmental-transactions-across-the-transition-to-adolescence-in-nine-countries-mothers-and-fathers-and-girls-and-boys. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.

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Putnick, Diane . "Parental Acceptance-Rejection and Child Prosocial Behavior: Developmental Transactions across the Transition to Adolescence in Nine Countries, Mothers and Fathers, and Girls and Boys". Afribary, Afribary, 03 Oct. 2024. Web. 18 Dec. 2024. < https://afribary.com/works/parental-acceptance-rejection-and-child-prosocial-behavior-developmental-transactions-across-the-transition-to-adolescence-in-nine-countries-mothers-and-fathers-and-girls-and-boys >.

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Putnick, Diane . "Parental Acceptance-Rejection and Child Prosocial Behavior: Developmental Transactions across the Transition to Adolescence in Nine Countries, Mothers and Fathers, and Girls and Boys" Afribary (2024). Accessed December 18, 2024. https://afribary.com/works/parental-acceptance-rejection-and-child-prosocial-behavior-developmental-transactions-across-the-transition-to-adolescence-in-nine-countries-mothers-and-fathers-and-girls-and-boys

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