How parenting styles affect the development of language skills and reading comprehension in primary school students.

Autor: Yu L; Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA., Huang J; School of Graduate Studies, Lingnan University, Tai Po, Hong Kong., Liu PD; Department of Special Education and Counselling, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, Hong Kong., Yeung SS; Department of Psychology, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, Hong Kong., Lin D; Department of Psychology, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, Hong Kong., Cheung H; University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand., Tong X; Department of Psychology, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, Hong Kong.; Philosophy and Social Science Laboratory of Reading and Development in Children and Adolescents (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The British journal of educational psychology [Br J Educ Psychol] 2024 Dec; Vol. 94 (4), pp. 1245-1270. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Oct 07.
DOI: 10.1111/bjep.12718
Abstrakt: Background and Aims: This study examined how parenting styles influence children's language skills and reading comprehension.
Materials and Methods: Six hundred and eighty-five Chinese-speaking third graders (M age  = 9.23 years, SD = .66; 341 girls) were randomly recruited from eight primary schools. We measured students' primary caregivers' parenting styles, parental education, family income, migration status, number of children's extracurricular books in the home and family cohesion at Wave 1 (i.e. grade 3). We also assessed students' reading motivation, language skills (i.e. vocabulary knowledge and syntactic awareness) and reading comprehension at Wave 2 (i.e. grade 4).
Results: The structural equation model analysis revealed that parenting styles indirectly affect language and reading comprehension development, with authoritative and authoritarian parenting exerting different influences on the two outcomes. Specifically, authoritative parenting was positively related to the number of children's books, which in turn was directly, or indirectly through reading motivation, associated with children's language skills and reading comprehension. In contrast, authoritarian parenting was negatively related to family cohesion, which was associated with children's reading motivation, and consequently, their language skills and reading comprehension. The multigroup analysis showed that the indirect pathways varied slightly across parental migration statuses.
Discussion and Conclusion: These findings enhance the global understanding of the pathways linking parenting styles to children's language skills and reading comprehension, suggesting that educators and researchers should not overly emphasize the direct role of parenting styles in children's academic performance.
(© 2024 British Psychological Society.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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