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Republic Central Colleges
Plaridel Street, Angeles City
Journal Critique
Early Parenting Practices and Outcomes for Adolescents
Presented by:
Nacu, Jemer Ruiz L.
Santiago, Maicy Marie S.
Valentin, Krissele April S.
Yalung, Lamuel M.
Presented to:
Mr. Jed V. Madlambayan
July 2013
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Article Title:
Early Parenting Practices and Outcomes for Adolescents
Authors:
Marcus Dunham, Amy Washington
Journal Title:
Educational Research Quarterly
Date of Publication:
December 2011
Volume, No. of Pages:
Volume 35.2, pages 43 - 75
Summary:
The study entitled Early Parenting Practices and Outcomes for Adolescents byMurray State University researchers Dunham and Washington aimed to compare early
parenting practices and adolescent behavior to determine whether parental attachment-
promoting behaviors in the first year of life were associated with psychosocial
adjustment in teenagers. The study design employs correlation, utilizes surveys for
data-collection, and periods cross-sectionally.
Mothers of 22 adolescents completed a behavioral assessment of their teenager
and an inventory of their recollected parenting practices during the first year of that
child's life. Male parents were not included in the study to ensure uniformity and
eliminate extraneous factors that might influence the results. The adolescent
participants, ranging in age from 12 to18 years (9 males and 13 females), also
completed a self report measure of psychosocial adjustment. The aforementioned
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participants were from a variety of backgrounds to help ensure diversity and
generalizability.
The participants received three surveys- the Parenting Practices Inventory (PPI),
the Behavior Assessment System for Children-2 Parent Report (BASC-2 PRS), and the
Behavior Assessment System for Children-2 Self-Report (BASC-2SRP). The former two,
the Parenting Practices Inventory (PPI), the Behavior Assessment System for Children-2
Parent Report (BASC-2 PRS), were accomplished by the adult participants, while the
Behavior Assessment System for Children-2 Self-Report (BASC-2SRP) was answered by
the teenagers.
The PPI was created for the study as an instrument for assessing the recalled
parenting practices engaged in by mothers with their child(ren) during the first year of
life. The instruments content and face validity, conceptualization, accuracy of wording,
length, understandability, and general formatting which are all critical to the results
were reviewed, revised, and test-completed by prominent authorities in the field and by
sample-population parents. The PPI items entailed 33, 5-scale Likert-type questions,
which half were reverse scored. The questions adhered to eight principles of
Attachment Parenting as described by the Attachment Parenting International (2008)
and initially proposed by Sears. The other two surveys, PRS and SRP, are existing,
already established, and widely utilized instruments; and were used to measure
behavioral functioning in adolescent participants.
Significant correlations between several early parenting practices and the PPI
total score, and between specific parenting practices and measures on both the BASC-2
PRS and BASC 2-SRP were found. The results indicated that early attachment-
promoting parenting practices were directly associated with the progeniespsychosocial
and behavioral outcomes. It was inferred that Attachment Parenting is a practical
framework for understanding and implementing best practices in early childrearing for
parents.
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Insights:
The reviewers were initially oriented with four parenting styles, and these
parenting styles were not particular in the significance of the employment of such styles
for the first 12 months of an individuals life. In reading the study, the reviewers were
made aware of another recently established parenting approach as distinct from the
Parenting Styles established by Baumrind (1971), Maccoby and Martin (1983), which is
known as Attachment Parenting, or simply, AP.
The findings of the study will allow the reviewers to understand the importance
of Attachment Parenting and as such offers valuable explanations as to why a certain
peer behaves such way and how such peer came about with such kind of behavior. A
wider horizon of thoughts will enable the reviewers to fully comprehend their peers
actions. As future professionals, the findings of the study will permit the reviewers to
share the significance of the parenting approach to a childs behavior to others, most
especially to would-be parents, and thus ultimately producing an effect practically on
the populace by creating a better society.
Study is recommended to extend to fathers.