Relationship Between Parenting Style and Adolescents’ Development- an Overview of Studies within China Between 2021 and 2025

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10.2991/978-2-38476-553-9_23How to use a DOI?

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Parenting styles; adolescent development; China; parent-child relationships; helicopter parenting

Abstract

This study uses qualitative thematic methods to combine insights from 25 peer-reviewed articles published between 2021 and 2025, focusing on how various parenting methods affect teenagers aged 14 to 18 in China. Drawing from Baumrind’s model and local adaptations like intensive oversight (helicopter) and demanding yet affectionate (tiger) styles, we uncovered four main patterns: (1) impacts on character traits, sense of self, school success, cooperative actions, and problematic conduct; (2) roles played by parents’ emotional conditions and societal aims; (3) factors contributing to teen mental health issues like depression; and (4) shifts in parenting techniques as children mature. Supportive and balanced guidance builds strength, belief in one’s capabilities, and general happiness, whereas rigid or controlling tactics heighten self-doubt, emotional lows, and antisocial tendencies, often linked through diminished confidence and home tensions. Core Chinese ideals, remnants of family size restrictions, and ongoing societal shifts mold these interactions, with mothers’ primary involvement and emphasis on learning intensifying results. Young females and those in initial teen years show greater susceptibility. Programs encouraging self-reliance and adjustability are advised, alongside further investigations into non-urban areas and prolonged consequences.

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AU  - Mingshuo Gao
AU  - Zeyuan Sun
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/03/25
TI  - Relationship Between Parenting Style and Adolescents’ Development- an Overview of Studies within China Between 2021 and 2025
BT  - Proceedings of the 2025 4th International Conference on Educational Science and Social Culture (ESSC 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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