Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Seville, 41013 Sevilla, Spain.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Feb 11;18(4):1760. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18041760.
Research into family context as a socializing agent points to the need to take parental beliefs into account due to the role they play in both parenting strategies and, ultimately, in the psychosocial adjustment of children and adolescents. The present study aims to explore possible relationships between parental beliefs about childhood and adolescence from a longitudinal and qualitative perspective. The beliefs held by parents of teenagers about adolescence are compared with those they hold about childhood at that same moment, and the evolution of these ideas is charted over the course of 16 years as their children grow. A total of 102 parents participated in the longitudinal study. They completed two types of semi-structured interviews: one of them throughout the entire study period and the other once their children became teenagers. The results reveal an association between the type of beliefs parents hold about childhood and their perception of adolescence, and they indicate that these ideas change over time as more adjusted and modern beliefs about child development correlate with a more positive perception of adolescence. These results are interpreted from the perspective of their influence on beliefs about parenting styles, reflecting what is reported in the recent literature regarding the most successful styles for fostering children's and adolescents' psychosocial adjustment.
研究家庭背景作为社会化因素表明，由于父母在育儿策略以及最终在儿童和青少年的心理社会适应方面所扮演的角色，有必要考虑父母的信念。本研究旨在从纵向和定性的角度探讨儿童和青少年时期父母信念之间可能存在的关系。将青少年父母对青春期的信念与他们在同一时刻对儿童期的信念进行比较，并随着孩子的成长，在 16 年的时间里记录这些观念的演变。共有 102 名家长参与了这项纵向研究。他们完成了两种类型的半结构化访谈：一种是在整个研究期间进行的，另一种是在他们的孩子进入青春期后进行的。研究结果表明，父母对儿童期的信念类型与其对青春期的看法之间存在关联，并且随着更适应和现代的儿童发展观念与对青春期的更积极看法相关联，这些观念会随着时间的推移而发生变化。这些结果从对育儿风格信念的影响角度进行了解释，反映了最近关于培养儿童和青少年心理社会适应最成功的风格的文献中的报告。
