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Relations among parenting, academic performance, and psychopathology: An investigation of developmental cascades and their interplay with maternal and paternal parenting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2023

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Jeong Jin Yu*
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Department of Educational Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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Corresponding author: Jeong Jin Yu, email: JeongJin.Yu@xjtlu.edu.cn
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Abstract

Little effort has been made to integrate developmental cascades with maternal/paternal parenting in a single investigation. The present study seeks to test cascading effects among academic and internalizing/externalizing symptoms and their associations with maternal/paternal parenting across three time points from 8 to 10 years. Data for this investigation came from a nationally representative prospective cohort study of children born in April through July of 2008 in South Korea who were followed up annually. The sample included 1,598 families (48.5% girls). Parents rated their parenting and teachers rated children’s internalizing/externalizing problems and academic performance. Structural equation modeling showed that externalizing problems were negatively related to academic performance. Academic performance was negatively related to internalizing problems and positively related to maternal/paternal authoritative parenting, which in turn led to children’s higher academic performance. Bidirectional relations were found between academic performance and externalizing problems and between paternal authoritative parenting and children’s internalizing problems. Findings suggested cascading effects and their associations with parenting were not attributable to child gender, intelligence, or socioeconomic differences. These findings lend support to adjustment erosion and academic incompetence models and underscore the need for greater attention to the role that fathering may play in children’s development and mothering.

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academic performanceauthoritative parentingdevelopmental cascadesexternalizing behaviorinternalizing behavior

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Development and Psychopathology , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , February 2024 , pp. 325 - 337
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