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Parenting and Child/Adolescent Development: Current Updates and Global Perspectives
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Parenting and Child/Adolescent Development: Current Updates and Global Perspectives

A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Global and Public Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 857

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Elitsa Dimitrova

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Department of Demography, Institute for Population and Human Studies—Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
Interests: fertility and family studies; parenthood; family policies; child poverty and social exclusion; adolescent health; early childhood development and care; research methods in social sciences
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Prof. Dr. Apolinaras Zaborskis

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Department of Preventive Medicine & Health Research Institute, Faculty of Public Health, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, A.Mickevičiaus 9, LT-44307 Kaunas, Lithuania
Interests: health behaviour of children and adolescents; family culture in health; inequalities in health; biostatistics (multilevel analysis and structural equation models)
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Family dynamics, parenting practices and parent/caregiver–child relationship have a formative effect and long-term implications for children’s health, well-being and socioemotional, cognitive, neurobiological development, also including later stages of life. Family connectedness, communication and relationships with parents and family members also provide important role models and contribute to the development of identity and the adoption of skills and behaviours in adolescence. This Special Issue takes a multidisciplinary stance and aims to collect theoretical, methodological and empirical papers on topics related to the influence of the family type, structure and family dynamics, the gendered aspect of parenting and care for children and adolescents, i.e. the role of mothers’ and fathers’ involvement and parenting practices, and their implications for child/adolescent development, health and well-being; the involvement of extended family members in care for children and adolescents; the role of the cultural practices of parenting in different social contexts; the role of the institutional and policy context, reflected in early childhood education and care (ECEC) policies, family and youth policies and services for families, children and adolescents.

Dr. Elitsa Dimitrova
Prof. Dr. Apolinaras Zaborskis
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Keywords

  • child development
  • adolescent development
  • health, well-being and health behaviour of children and adolescents
  • family type, structure and family dynamics
  • parent–child/adolescent relationships
  • parenting practices and involvement in care for children and adolescents
  • gendered aspects of parenting and care for children and adolescents
  • generational aspects of care for children and adolescents
  • early childhood education and care (ECEC) policies, family and youth policies
  • services for families, children and adolescents

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Adaptation of the Coparenting Relationship Scale Questionnaire to Spanish Parents with Offspring
by Dolores Seijo, Francisca Fariña, María Paula Fernández and Ramón Arce
Children 2024, 11(5), 535; https://doi.org/10.3390/children11050535 (registering DOI) - 30 Apr 2024
Abstract
The scientific literature supports that practicing positive coparenting leads to the healthy development of children. Consequently, professional interest in parenting and coparenting has experienced significant growth, and evaluating coparenting is crucial in family psychology for establishing action protocols in clinical practice. An instrument [...] Read more.
The scientific literature supports that practicing positive coparenting leads to the healthy development of children. Consequently, professional interest in parenting and coparenting has experienced significant growth, and evaluating coparenting is crucial in family psychology for establishing action protocols in clinical practice. An instrument highly regarded within the scientific community for evaluating coparenting dynamics is The Coparenting Relationship Scale (CRS). This research aims to achieve two objectives: first, to adapt the CRS for the Spanish population of both engaged and separated/divorced parents and to ascertain its reliability, validity, and factorial invariance psychometric properties; second, to assess the effectiveness of the total coparenting measure in categorizing sample participants. A cross-sectional non-experimental investigation was conducted to address these objectives. The first objective was answered by conducting an instrumental study, and the second by an exploratory study using classification techniques and a causal-comparative study using multivariate inferential methods. It was concluded that the model comprising 20 items across two factors, Positive Coparenting and Negative Perception of Coparenting, is the simplest and best fit for the Spanish parent sample; it is invariant regarding gender and marital status, and the measures derived from each factor demonstrate reliability and convergent and discriminant validity. The resulting questionnaire for Spanish parents is named CRS-SEg-S&D. The Coparental Vitality measure calculated using the total weighted measure of CRS-SEg-S&D allows the sample of participants to be divided into three differentiated clusters called Coparental Robustness, Moderate Coparenting, and Coparenting Rickets. Full article
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