A Systematic Review of Different Parenting Styles Relate to Different Outcomes in ADHD Offspring

Abstract

As for ADHD children, the way their parents get along with them affects several aspects of their lives. Since mostly the systems and structures that ADHD children live in do not provide sufficient help to them and couldn't always help them negotiate these life challenges particularly well. Therefore, family intervention is essential to them. This systematic review aims to summarize a sort of outcomes of ADHD children when facing different types of parenting styles. Such as academic outcomes, social-emotional functioning, behavior and intelligence level. Articles indexed in Web of Science, CNKI and Science Direct were searched, using collocations such as "parenting style" AND "ADHD" OR "attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder" AND "parenting" OR "parent". 24 empirical articles were identified as relevant to this study. A considerable amount of tools are used to assess those outcomes in children. We found that parents of ADHD children used more permissive parenting style and authoritarian parenting style than parents of typical children. Results indicated sight but significant moderation between several outcomes.