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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.

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