Abstract

MOSMANN, Clarisse  and  SARRIERA, Jorge. Marital quality as a predictor of parental rearing styles: the discriminant profile of couples with teenager children. Psicologia [online]. 2008, vol.22, n.2, pp.161-182. ISSN 0874-2049.

The present study aimed to draw a discriminating profile of couples taking into consideration the dimensions of marital quality, adaptability, cohesion, satisfaction, level of marital conflict, the social-demographic variables and the parental rearing styles practiced with their children. We used a sample of 149 middle class couples with at least one teenage child, living in Porto Alegre city or in the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul. It was used an instrument composed of four scales: three to measure the dimensions of marital relationship and one for the dimensions of parenting. The results showed that the dimensions of marital quality express themselves in a dynamic and effective way in the variables which compose the parental rearing styles. Moreover, these results showed a coherence of functioning between the individual characteristics of the spouses concerning the practice of marital relationship as well as parenting.

Keywords : family; marital quality; parental rearing styles; subsystem relations.

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