Differences between Mothers and Fathers in Teaching Style and Child-Rearing Practices
- 1 August 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 49 (1) , 237-238
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1981.49.1.237
Abstract
Parent-child interaction was recorded while 32 mothers and 32 fathers taught their children to play a simple game in a naturalistic environment. Steward and Steward's (1973, 1974) Parent Interaction Code was used to quantify the parent-child behaviors and analyses showed that mothers differed from fathers on several dimensions involving teaching style. Such differences were also found for the child-rearing practices of the parents.Keywords
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