In recent years, the state has issued a series of policies and plans related to children's development to guide the comprehensive development of children and adolescents.2021 The Outline of China's Children's Development (2021-2030), which was promulgated in 2021, pointed out that it should be oriented to “improve children's comprehensive quality” and to cultivate socialist builders and youths with “all-round development in morality, intelligence, physicality, aesthetics and labor”. socialist builders and successors with “all-round development in morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor”, and to promote the further improvement of the “mechanism for coordinated education in school, family and society”. Among them, family education is the basic link to promote the development of children and adolescents, so it is necessary to systematically analyze the influencing factors of family education represented by parenting styles, to increase our understanding of the connotation of family education, to promote the improvement of the family education service system and the mechanism of collaborative education between school, family and society, and to promote the high-quality development of family education. Against this background, a study published in the China Economics of Education Review used data from three rounds of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2010-2014 to analyze how the socioeconomic status of a family and its subjective parenting concepts jointly shape the choice of parenting styles.
The study shows that:
1. Parental occupation has a significant impact on the choice of parenting style. As the socioeconomic index (ISEI) of the father's occupation increases, families are less inclined to choose authoritarian and more inclined to tolerant parenting styles.
2. In addition to the family's socioeconomic status, parents' subjective parenting concepts also affect the choice of parenting style, and the impact of subjective parenting concepts varies with the measure. When parents have a high sense of parenting responsibility, parenting styles tend to be more tolerant; if parents have high expectations of their children's education, parenting styles tend to be more authoritative. Moreover, there is group heterogeneity in the influence of parents' subjective parenting concepts on the choice of parenting styles, i.e., the higher the sense of parenting responsibility, the lower the probability that parents of 10-15 year olds and urban children will choose the two types of parenting styles, authoritarian and authoritative; whereas the higher the parental educational expectations, the lower the probability that parents of girls and rural children will choose neglectful styles, and the higher the probability that parents of 10-15 year olds will choose authoritative styles of parenting. higher.
3. Mechanism analysis shows that family socio-economic status will also play an indirect role in the choice of parenting styles through subjective parenting concepts.
The study makes the following recommendations:
Emphasize the role of family education in the growth of children and adolescents.
Strengthen research on family education as represented by parenting styles and practices, and promote the high-quality development of family education.