Prácticas de crianza asociadas al comportamiento negativista desafiante y de agresión infantil

Abstract

Parental rearing practices are associated to children´s problem behavior, which predicts early onset criminal behavior and drug use in adolescents. The goal of the paper was to describe the parental rearing practices related to the oppositional defiant disorder and to aggressive behavior by means of a correlational study. We assessed 300 participants, from a non random sample, with an average age of 34 years, from 18 states of Mexico, selected from public health institutions, who voluntarily participated in the positive rearing program because of behavior problems of their children, aged 2 to 12 years. We used self-reports and an observational system of the parents´ behavior in interactional simulated situations. The results showed that the percentage of children with oppositional defiant disorder was greater. Giving clear instructions, establishing rules, problem solving and positive social interaction, established by parents´ self-reporting and behavior observation, were parental rearing styles reliably associated with less reports of oppositional defiant and aggressive behavior.