Parenting styles and parenting practices in pediatric diabetes.

摘要

The influence of parents on both the adherence behavior and the glyce-mic control of their children and adolescents with diabetes has been documented for several decades. In their article, Shorer et al. (1) focus on the dimension of parental influence that has been defined as "parenting style." They add to the small but growing literature examining the influence of fathers on outcomes in adolescents with a chronic illness (2,3)- Scientists in the child development field have emphasized the importance of distinguishing parenting styles from "parenting practices" (4). Parenting styles are denned as characteristics of the parent that are stable over time and constitute the emotional context for specific parenting practices (5). Parenting styles are usually discussed as typologies characterized by the parent's level of sensitivity to and expectations for their child's behavior (6). Parenting styles are usually defined according to the intersection of these two dimensions, as illustrated in Table 1.