The Relationship Between Parenting and Delinquency: A Meta-analysis

By M. Hoeve, J. Dubas, V. Eichelsheim, P. H. van der Laan, W. Smeenk, J. Gerris. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2009

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This meta-analysis of 161 published and unpublished manuscripts was conducted to determine whether the association between parenting and delinquency exists and what the magnitude of this linkage is. The strongest links were found for parental monitoring, psychological control, and negative aspects of support such as rejection and hostility, accounting for up to 11% of the variance in delinquency. Several effect sizes were moderated by parent and child gender, child age, informant on parenting, and delinquency type, indicating that some parenting behaviors are more important for particular contexts or subsamples. Although both dimensions of warmth and support seem to be important, surprisingly very few studies focused on parenting styles. Furthermore, fewer than 20% of the studies focused on parenting behavior of fathers, despite the fact that the effect of poor support by fathers was larger than poor maternal support, particularly for sons. Implications for theory and parenting are discussed.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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• Influence of Parental Styles and Other Psychosocial Variables on the Development of Externalizing Behaviors in Adolescents: A Sytematic Review (2018, background): “These results are consistent with previous meta-analyses (Connell & Goodman, 2002; Hoeve et al., 2009; Rothbaum & Weisz, 1994).”
• Bringing parenting interventions back to the future: How randomized microtrials may benefit parenting intervention efficacy (2015, neutral): “For example, longitudinal research on parent – child interaction has identified key dynamics in the interaction between parents and their children that predict growth in antisocial behavior over time (Buck & Dix, 2014; Hoeve et al., 2009; Roth-baum & Weisz, 1994).”
• Associations of Parenting Dimensions and Styles with Internalizing Symptoms in Children and Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis (2017, result): “As associations of parenting with delinquency (including violent behaviors) have already been systematically analyzed in a large meta-analysis (Hoeve et al., 2009), the present meta-analysis focuses on associations of parenting with internalizing symptoms.”
• On the consequences of ignoring genetic influences in criminological research (2014, background): “, Derzon, 2010; Elliott, 1985; Hoeve et al., 2009; Pratt & Cullen, 2000; Pratt et al., 2010; Weisburd & Piquero, 2008). Pratt and Cullen (2000), for example, estimated the average correlation between self-control and delinquency to be in the range of r ~ .”