Nurturing the future : how positive parenting is related to children's skills and well-being

Laura Breitkopf, Shyamal Chowdhury, Shambhavi Priyam, Hannah SchildbergHörisch, Matthias Sutter

We study the relationship between parenting style and a broad range of children’s skills and outcomes. Based on survey and experimental data from 5,580 children and their parents, we ﬁnd that children exposed to positive parenting have higher IQs, are more altruistic, open to new experiences, conscientious, and agreeable, have a higher locus of control, self-control, and self-esteem, perform better in scholarly achievement tests, behave more prosocially in everyday life, and are more satisﬁed with their life. Positive parenting is negatively associated with children’s neuroticism, patience, engagement in risky behaviors, and their emotional and behavioral problems.

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Year of publication:	October 2024
Authors:	Breitkopf, Laura ; Chowdhury, Shyamal K. ; Priyam, Shambhavi ; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah ; Sutter, Matthias
Publisher:	Munich, Germany : CESifo
Subject:	parenting style \| child outcomes \| economic preferences \| personality traits \| IQ \| Kinder \| Children \| Kognition \| Cognition \| Eltern \| Parents \| Persönlichkeitspsychologie \| Personality psychology \| Bildungsniveau \| Educational achievement \| Persönlichkeitsmerkmal \| Personality trait \| Zufriedenheit \| Satisfaction \| Lebensqualität \| Quality of life