[Retracted] Correlation between Parenting Style by Personality Traits and Mental Health of College Students
Table 1
Different theories of parenting style.
Different theories
Different types
Psychoanalytic theory
This theory is strictly unidirectional, focusing on the emotional relationship between parents and children, believing that the characteristics of parents play a decisive role in the parent-child relationship and emphasizing the important impact of such emotional relationship on children’s mental health and social development.
Interaction theory
The theory emphasizes that in family life, children are influenced by their parents, but in turn the children influence the parents who interact with them. During the interaction, children develop their own personalities. This theory overemphasizes the dependence of children on their parents and believes that children cannot exist independently of the social relations in which they live, while neglecting that children are also individuals with independent individualities.
Attribute theory
The theory emphasizes that children learn and accept norms of behavior and social concepts through their parents and then internalize these to achieve their own growth and development. According to this theory, it is the best way for parents not to interfere with their children’s choices.
Ecological systems theory
The interaction between people and the environment mainly focuses on the mutual relationship and influence within the family system. The behavior of parents and the behavior of children are interactive.
Learning theory
The theory holds that reinforcement and learning, rather than parenting, is the main way to achieve children’s growth and development and emphasizes that if children are to develop, they must be promoted by parental supervision, rewards, and punishments.