Ebeveyn kontrol davranışlarının, çocuğun dışsallaştırma davranış problemlerine etkisi

This study examined the effect of parental control (behavioral, psychological, and physical) and its correlates (parental warmth, parental use of inductive reasoning, and SES) on the externalizing behaviors of 3 year-old children in Turkish culture. The study encompassed conceptual and empirical work to define parental control. It was proposed that cross cultural generalizability of dimensions of parenting and their effects on children?s externalizing behaviors can be achieved by eliminating implicit assumptions regarding the coexistence of various conceptually distinct aspects of parenting such as parental control and lack of parental warmth. The data were collected by qualitative methods on parent-child interactions and quantitative methods with questionnaires (N=123) from the participants of the Study of Early Childhood Developmental Ecologies in Turkey (ECDET). The results indicated that (i) Turkish mothers preferred to exercise three types of parental control simultaneously; (ii) children of mothers who impose higher parental control displayed higher externalizing problems compared to others; (iii) the non-linear effects of behavioral control on child externalizing behaviors suggesting an optimum level for the behavioral control; (iv) there were interactive effects of behavioral and psychological control with parental warmth. The major contributions of the current study were to investigate the effects of three types of parental control on child externalizing behaviors of 3 year- old children in Turkish context with studying the independent and interactive effects by both qualitative and quantitative means.