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The Structural Relationships of Parenting Style, Creative Personality, and Loneliness

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Pages 412-419 | Published online: 04 Nov 2008
 

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the nature of the relationships between children's reports of their mother's and father's parenting style (leniency and acceptance), teacher's reports of children's creative personality, and teacher's reports of children's loneliness in school in a sample of South Korean sixth graders (N = 421). Using structural equation modeling, the results showed that parenting styles that reflected higher levels of leniency were associated with higher levels of loneliness and no relationship with children's creative personality. Parenting styles that reflected higher levels of acceptance were associated with higher levels of creativity in their children, but did not have a direct effect on loneliness. However, there was an indirect effect; the relationship between acceptance and loneliness was mediated by creativity.

Notes

Note. F lenient = father's lenient parenting, M lenient = mother's lenient parenting, F accept = father's accepting parenting, M accept = mother's accepting parenting.

p < .05; ∗∗p < .01.

∗∗p < .01. ∗∗∗p < .001.

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