Parenting style, coping efficacy, and risk-taking behavior in Chinese young adults. (2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ju, Chengting; Wu, Rina; Zhang, Baoshan; You, Xuqun; Luo, Yun
• Is Part Of: Journal of Pacific Rim psychology. Volume 14(2020)
• Publication Date: 2020
• Subjects: parenting style -- coping efficacy -- risk-taking behavior -- Chinese young adults; Psychology -- Oceania -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Islands of the Pacific -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; 150.99
• DOI: 10.1017/prp.2019.24
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1834-4909

Abstract

The goal of this study was to examine the relationship between three parenting styles (warmth, rejection, and overprotection), coping efficacy and risk-taking behavior in Chinese young adults. A total of 719 subjects completed three instruments: the Egna Minneu av Bardndosnauppforstran, the Coping Efficacy Questionnaire and the Adolescent Risk-Taking Questionnaire. Structural equation modeling results showed that maternal warmth (negatively) and rejection (positively), but not overprotection, correlated with risk-taking behavior via coping efficacy, whereas paternal rejection and overprotection (positively), but not warmth, correlated with risk-taking behavior via coping efficacy. These results suggest that parenting styles indirectly associate with risk-taking behavior through coping efficacy in young adults.