Parental Efficacy Beliefs, Parenting Practices, and Child Adjustment

While parental efficacy belief is promoted, and viewed as a positive concept, if parents with higher parental efficacy beliefs tend to practice positive parenting behavior, thus leads to positive child outcome, is still questionable, and requires further research in Taiwan. Moreover, if parents can accurately evaluate their parenting “outcome”—child adjustment, then acknowledge and change their possible negative parenting practices, requires further studies, too. 655 5th and 6th graders and their parents participated in this study.

It was found that parental efficacy, parenting behavior and child adjustment were related to each other. Parents with higher parental efficacy were more likely to practiced authoritative parenting, less likely to be restrictive or to neglect their children. Parental efficacy and the parenting practices related to it both had positive effects on child adjustment.