The association between parenting styles, maternal self-efficacy, and social and emotional adjustment among Arab preschool children

Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica

Psychology: Research and Review

Table 3 Regression analysis for predicting adjustment (n = 420)

	General adjustment		Social adjustment		Emotional adjustment
	R²	Β	R²	Β	R²	Β
Step 1	.03		.02		.03
Child’s age		.06		.05		.06
Child’s gender		.03		.04		.03
Child’s socioeconomic status		.04		.03		.03
Step 2	0.26		0.27		0.27
Uninvolved parenting style		−1.11**		−1.18**		−1.31**
Authoritative style		1.31**		1.13**		1.40**
Authoritarian parenting style		−0.50**		−0.62**		−0.63**
Self-efficacy		0.30**		0.28**		0.29**