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1 - Foundational Theories and the Establishment of Parenting Science Research

from Part I - Foundations of Parenting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2022

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George W. Holden
Edited by
Amanda Sheffield Morris  and
Julia Mendez Smith
Amanda Sheffield Morris
Affiliation:
Oklahoma State University
Julia Mendez Smith
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
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This chapter concerns two elemental aspects of parenting research: foundational theories and the establishment of research into parent-child relationships. The six essential theories that have formed the groundwork for understanding parenting are reviewed. These theories are: evolution, attachment, socialization, behavioral genetics, social cognition, and systems. While the earliest theories were developing, research into parenting began to be published. Empirical studies about child rearing appeared in journals with some regularity beginning in the 1930s. Around the same time, child study centers and the interest in child guidance and parent education emerged. Researchers into parent-child relationships have adopted different theoretical approaches, taken multiple and often dissimilar methods, and addressed diverse questions. Many of the studies can be characterized into one of eight approaches: trait, child effects and transactions, social learning, social address, social cognition, behavioral genetics, ecological momentary, and large sample, longitudinal datasets. These approaches are described and contrasted. The chapter ends with discussion of some of the current research trends.

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