The Relation between Parents’ Child-Rearing Behavior and Their Socioeconomic Status in a Developing Country Context

A Case from West Bengal, India

Bibliographic Data

ID6174868
AuthorsSaikat Ghosh (0000-0001-8341-2040), Tobias Rausch (0000-0001-5773-5620)
Year2020
Volume2020
Issue02
Pages33-39
Publication date2020-10-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueZEP – Zeitschrift für internationale Bildungsforschung und Entwicklungspädagogik (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1434-4688 • E-ISSN: 2699-5549
PublisherWaxmann (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.31244/zep.2020.02.06
OpenAlexW3094908249
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited9

This study examines variation in parents’ child-rearing behavior based on their socioeconomic status (SES) in the context of a developing country. The impact of different aspects of SES on the probability of practicing several child-rearing behaviors was examined individually based on a data of 1373 households in West Bengal, India. The study found that components of SES explain great shares of the variance in parents’ child-rearing behaviors and the variation was bi-dimensional. There was variation between parental practices due to a change in SES, and also each practice was affected differently for each component of SES. Mother’s level of education was found to play a consistent and most significant role in improving parent-child regular interaction

Child rearing · Context (archaeology · Developing country · Developmental psychology · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Population · Socioeconomic status · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Variation (astronomy · West bengal · Demography · Early Childhood Education and Development · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology

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