Positive parenting and its relation to socioemotional development in children

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Portada REIPE, volumen 9 número 0 (Monográfico), 2022
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Published: Apr 29, 2022

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Silvana Martins
Unidade de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde: Enfermagem, Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra
Portugal
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3791-3236
Cláudia Augusto
Escola Superior de Enfermagem da Universidade do Minho; Unidade de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde: Enfermagem, Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra
Portugal
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5450-7307
Maria José Silva
Escola Superior de Enfermagem da Universidade do Minho
Portugal
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5632-2776
Ana Duarte
Escola Superior de Enfermagem da Universidade do Minho; Centro de Investigação em Estudos da Criança
Portugal
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9741-8141
Fátima Martins
Escola Superior de Enfermagem da Universidade do Minho; Unidade de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde: Enfermagem, Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra
Portugal
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9137-5507
Rafaela Rosário
Escola Superior de Enfermagem da Universidade do Minho; Unidade de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde: Enfermagem, Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra, Portugal; Centro de Investigação em Estudos da Criança
Portugal
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6986-0007
Vol. 9 (2022), Número monográfico XVI CIG-PP, pages 118-131
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/reipe.2022.9.0.8908
Submitted: Jan 10, 2022 Accepted: Mar 21, 2022 Published: Apr 29, 2022
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The family is considered important in promoting adequate physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development. This study aimed to analyze the associations between the dimensions of positive parenting, co-parenting and socioemotional development of children aged 12 to 36 months. For data collection, we used a sociodemographic data questionnaire, the Positive Parenting Scale, the Coparenting Scale, and the Socioemotional Development Scale, filled out by parents on paper. Participants included 347 children (50.3% girls), aged between 10 and 35 months. The mothers of these children were, on average, 34.76 (SD = 4.79) years old and more than half had completed higher education (62.1%). The father was, on average, 36.79 (SD = 4.95) years old and 48.3% had completed higher education. The results show the existence of low, positive correlations between socioemotional development and the dimensions of positive parenting. In addition, there is a low, negative and statistically significant relationship between cognitive development and one of the dimensions of positive parenting. The dimensions of co-parenting do not show statistically significant correlations with either socioemotional development or cognitive development. In the multivariate regression analysis, it was found that socioemotional development is associated with the child's age and family involvement.

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child, socioemotional development, positive parenting, co-parenting

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