Contemporary research on parenting. The case for nature and nurture |
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Authors: | Collins W A Maccoby E E Steinberg L Hetherington E M Bornstein M H |
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Institution: | National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, University of Minnesota 55455-0345, USA. wcollins@tc.umn.edu |
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Abstract: | Current findings on parental influences provide more sophisticated and less deterministic explanations than did earlier theory and research on parenting. Contemporary research approaches include (a) behavior-genetic designs, augmented with direct measures of potential environmental influences; (b) studies distinguishing among children with different genetically influenced predispositions in terms of their responses to different environmental conditions; (c) experimental and quasi-experimental studies of change in children's behavior as a result of their exposure to parents' behavior, after controlling for children's initial characteristics; and (d) research on interactions between parenting and nonfamilial environmental influences and contexts, illustrating contemporary concern with influences beyond the parent-child dyad. These approaches indicate that parental influences on child development are neither as unambiguous as earlier researchers suggested nor as insubstantial as current critics claim. |
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