Examining effects of parent warmth and control on internalizing behavior clusters from age 8 to 12 in 12 cultural groups in nine countries.
William Andrew RothenbergJennifer E LansfordSuha M Al-HassanDario BacchiniMarc H BornsteinLei ChangKirby Deater-DeckardLaura Di GiuntaKenneth A DodgePatrick S MalonePaul OburuConcetta PastorelliAnn T SkinnerEmma SorbringLaurence SteinbergSombat TapanyaLiliana Maria Uribe TiradoSaengduean YotanyamaneewongLiane Peña AlampayPublished in: Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines (2019)
Effects of parent warmth and control appear stronger on some types of child-reported internalizing behaviors. Associations are especially strong with regard to parental warmth across cultures, and culture-specific effects may be accounted for by cultural normativeness of parent warmth and child-reported somatic symptoms. Child internalizing behavior effects on subsequent parenting are common across cultures.