Harsh Parenting in Relation to Child Emotion Regulation and Aggression
...hers, included 325 children, of which 45% were female. The age of the children ranged from 3 to 6 years, with the majority falling between the ages of 4 and 5 years. The average age of the parents was 34. The study showed that mothers’ harsh parenting affected child emotion regulation more strongly than the fathers, whereas harsh parenting deriving from the fathers had a stronger effect on child aggression. Also, a father’s harsh parenting affected sons more than daughters, whereas there was no gender discrepancy effect with the mothers harsh parenting. My thoughts on the Harsh Parenting in Relation to Child Emotion Regulation and Aggression study is that I believe it is not accurate. I think that the study could have been preformed in a different manner. This study used only Chinese children. All the samples and procedures were taken or conducted in a southern Chinese city. I believe that if the study was done on a group of children of all races the results would come out different. I do not agree with the interpretation of this study because I believe it to be biased towards o...