Cross-lagged Analysis of the Relationship Between Authoritative and Au-thoritarian Parenting and the Cognitive Processes of Lower Elementary Students
To investigate the bidirectional relationship between parental authoritative and authoritarian parenting styles and the Planning-Attention-Simultaneous-Successive(PASS)cognitive processes of lower elementary students,a one-year twice follow-up study was conducted on the cognitive process of 113 second and third-grade students and the parenting styles of their parents.The results indicate that authoritative parenting does not have a bidirectional predictive relationship with the PASS cogni-tive processes of lower elementary students,whereas authoritarian parenting has a negative bidirectional predictive relationship with these cognitive processes.Authoritarian parenting can negatively affect children's cognitive development,and poor cogni-tive development in children leads to the adoption of authoritarian parenting.Based on these findings,parents are encouraged to adopt gentle and positive parenting behaviors to provide family support for their children's cognitive development.