Abstract

The current meta-analysis examined and compared the relative associations of maternal and paternal parenting behavior with children’s prosocial behavior from 29 studies. In total 502 effect sizes (N = 14,627) were subjected to Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling. Controlling for the other parent, both maternal and paternal parenting behavior showed small positive pooled associations with children’s prosocial behavior (r_father = .10 and r_mother = .12). The partial effect sizes for paternal and maternal parenting did not differ significantly from each other and were significant regardless of parenting dimension, study design (concurrent versus predictive) and average sample age (pre-adolescence versus adolescence). High levels of paternal and maternal warmth and positive control, and low levels of paternal and maternal harshness were associated with more prosocial behavior in children.

摘要

当前的荟萃分析检查并比较了来自29项研究的母婴父母育儿行为与儿童亲社会行为的相对关联。总共对502个效果大小（N  = 14627）进行了元分析结构方程建模。在控制另一父母的情况下，父母和父母的父母养育行为都显示出与儿童亲社会行为的小正集合关系（r_父亲= .10和r_母亲= .12）。父亲和母亲育儿的局部效应大小没有显着差异，并且无论育儿规模，研究设计（并发与预测）和平均样本年龄（青春期前与青春期）如何，差异均显着。较高的父母和母亲的温暖和积极的控制，以及较低的父母和母亲的苛刻程度与儿童的亲社会行为有关。