A Systematic Review of Parental Self-efficacy Among Parents of School-Age Children and Adolescents
2029 (English)In: Adolescent Research Review, ISSN 2363-8346, E-ISSN 2363-8354, Vol. 9, no 1, p. 75-91Article, review/survey (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
What function does parental self-efficacy have for parenting behaviors and children's adjustment, and what explains individual variations in parents' self-efficacy? Parental self-efficacy involves parents' beliefs about their influence on their children and this systematic review presents results from 35 empirical studies published between 2003 and 2022 among parents of school-aged children and adolescents. First, the studies in this review show a bi-directional association between parental self-efficacy and positive parenting, and some empirical evidence that parental self-efficacy influences children indirectly, via parenting. The few longitudinal studies examining associations between parental self-efficacy and child behaviors suggest that self-efficacy might emerge as a reaction to children's behaviors. Second, many child, parent, and sociocultural factors were shown to predict parental self-efficacy (e.g., child gender and age, parents' psychological well-being, and socio-economic status), and results suggest that these associations are similar across multiple countries and age groups. Finally, studies reporting on parental self-efficacy at different time points or a correlation between self-efficacy and the child's age suggested that parental self-efficacy decreases over the school-age and adolescent period. This review shows the complex role of parental self-efficacy in associations with parent and child factors, and it also highlight questions to address for future research.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2029. Vol. 9, no 1, p. 75-91
Keywords [en]
Parental self-efficacy, School-age children, Adolescents, Systematic literature review, Parent and child variables
National Category
Psychology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-106136DOI: 10.1007/s40894-023-00216-wISI: 000989511100001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85159476135OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-106136DiVA, id: diva2:1761526
2023-06-012023-06-012024-07-30Bibliographically approved