Comparing early parental warmth and effective management as predictors of child conduct and emotional problems

Thesis

Introduction: Identifying aspects of parenting that are protective for child emotional and behavioural outcomes is important for informing parenting intervention. Attachment theory and social learning theory represent two major theories that propose different mechanisms for how parenting influences child functioning. The aim of this study was to compare dimensions of early positive parenting associated with these two theoretical frameworks as predictors of child conduct and emotiona...

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Authors: Villadsen, A

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Child externalising problems; Attachment theory; Parenting; Social learning theory; Child internalising problems
• Subjects: Developmental psychology; Social intervention