Is Authoritative Parenting the Best Parenting Style?

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210322.021How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Children, parenting, early childhood education

Abstract

Over the past 60 years, parenting style has been consistently explored, particularly with regard to its role in children’s development in western society. Various studies show that authoritative parenting is the best and the most effective parenting style to be applied universally to support optimal children’s development. This paper aims at exploring how the implementation of parenting style is highly affected by the cultural context of the society. Different cultural values reflected in individualist and collectivist cultures shape different understandings of parenting and thus different parenting styles. The two cultures perceive authoritative parenting style differently. To collect information, the author reviewed the literature on parenting practices in Asian, European, and American countries. The results of this paper highlight the need of having a better understanding on how the parenting style which is considered the best in one culture can be distinctly perceived by other cultures.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Anita Febiyanti
AU  - Yeni Rachmawati
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/24
TI  - Is Authoritative Parenting the Best Parenting Style?
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Early Childhood Education (ICECE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 94
EP  - 99
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210322.021
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210322.021
ID  - Febiyanti2021
ER  -