Influence of Parenting in Adolescent and Young Adult Development
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Educational Psychology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 38
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Family theorists and researchers have long emphasized the importance of parents in child development in social, emotional, and behavioral domains. As children become older, parents continue to impact their older children’s lives. Extensive research focuses on the role of parents in younger children, whereas the influence of parenting on adolescent and young adult children is relatively less studied. As a result, many important questions remain regarding parenting of adolescents and young adults, such as how do parents and adolescent children renegotiate parenting during the stage of adolescents’ autonomy and independence seeking? What is age-appropriate parenting behavior when young adult children start taking on adult responsibilities? Are there differences in the effects of parenting between mothers and fathers on daughters and sons? How do parenting practices differ across families from diverse backgrounds?
This Special Issue calls for increased research attention and effort to improve our understanding of the role of parenting during the developmental stages of adolescence and young adulthood. Potential paper topics include, but are not limited to: conceptualization and measurement of parenting; stability and change in parenting; antecedents, patterns, and profiles of parenting; diverse family contexts and processes of parenting; the effects of parenting on parent–child relationships and child development, the effects of parenting on parents’ own health and well-being, and on marital and coparenting practices and relationships; and mechanisms and/or risk/resilience factors that explain the effects of parenting.
If you have an article that you think would be appropriate for this Special Issue, we invite you to submit an abstract by the deadline.
Abstract Deadline: 30 September 2025
Notification of Abstract Acceptance: 15 October 2025
Prof. Dr. Ming Cui
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- parenting
- parents
- parent–child
- child development
- adolescent
- young adult
- family
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