Parenting: an ecological perspective

✍ Scribed by Tom Luster, Lynn Okagaki

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 459
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Parenting: An Ecological Perspective was originally created in 1993 to answer questions such as: Why do parents differ markedly in the ways in which they care for their children? What factors contribute to individual differences in parenting behavior? The framework used for addressing these questions is the ecological perspective developed by Urie Bronfenbrenner, who recognized that children's development is influenced by the interactions that they have over time with the people, objects, and symbols in their immediate environment. Luster and Okagaki have updated the original text focusing on parental behavior and also included 6 new chapters covering topics such as: Fathers/gender of parent; Children with special needs; Ethnicity and socioeconomic status; and Parent education. The text summarizes the latest research on factors that influence parenting, with each chapter providing a look at one important influence and the linkages among these various factors. An ecological perspective draws attention to the fact that the lives of parents and children are intertwined, and that understanding factors that influence parents is important for understanding the experiences of children.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Introduction......Page 8
I CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PARENTS......Page 18
1 Parents’ Social Cognitions and Their Parenting Behaviors......Page 20
2 Developmental Origins of Parenting: Personality......Page 52
3 Adolescent Mothers and Their Children: An Ecological Perspective......Page 90
4 Fathers: Cultural and Ecological Perspectives......Page 120
II CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CHILD......Page 162
5 The Effects of Child Characteristics on Parenting......Page 164
6 Parenting Children with Developmental Disabilities......Page 194
III CONTEXTUAL INFLUENCES ON PARENTING......Page 220
7 Parenting and the Marital Relationship......Page 222
8 Parenting and Personal Social Networks......Page 252
9 The Long Arm of the Job Revisited: Parenting in Dual-Earner Families......Page 292
10 Neighborhood and Community Influences on Parenting......Page 314
11 Socioeconomic Status, Ethnicity, and Parenting......Page 336
12 Searches for What Works in Parenting Interventions......Page 360
IV PARENTAL BEHAVIOR AND CHILDREN’S DEVELOPMENT......Page 392
13 Research on Parental Socialization of Child Outcomes......Page 394
About the Authors......Page 420
Author Index......Page 428
Subject Index......Page 452