Using data from a nationally representative panel of parents interviewed in 1988 and 1992,
we report a model of parenting satisfaction, with particular attention to marital happiness,
family structure, and parents' gender. Cross-sectional analyses show that parenting ...

Abstract Temperamental characteristics have been related to later externalizing and
internalizing behavioral outcomes. To assess the relationship between temperament and
the early family environment, we measured infant temperament, pleasure in parenting, ...

... For fathers, their parenting role had little bearing on their marital happiness, general
life satisfaction, or emotional state. There was some evidence that fathers who were
playing an equal part in child care were the least content. ...

... It was predicted that: 1. Extraversion and neuroticism would be significantly correlated with
happiness. 2. Parental permissiveness and authoritarian parenting would be negatively and
parental authoritativeness positively correlated with self-esteem. ...

... Self-esteem and self-criticism are examined as mediator variables between parenting
style and happiness (Baron and Kenny, 1986). ... Various studies have used the Parental
Authority Page 3. PARENTING STYLE AND HAPPINESS 3 ...

Abstract This study aims to examine the effects of mother's and father's perceived parenting
style and friendship quality on several indicators of adolescents' well-being. High school
students (n= 401) completed scales assessing their perception of their mother's and ...

... Additionally, mothers reported increased parenting happiness and satisfaction with
parent–child interactions; however, the psychometric properties of the single-item rating
scales that were used have not been established (Singh et al. 2009). ...

... of parents' and step-parents' own understandings and experiences of their parenting in
step-families. It addresses questions such as: What does it mean to be a family? Do people in
step-families see themselves as making a different kind of family? Is individual happiness in a ...

... The demands of parenting may decrease resources for coping with stress by lowering marital
happiness, which, in turn, in- creases distress. ... Page 4. Journal of Marriage and the Family The
impact of parenting on marital happiness appears to be greater for women. ...