By contrast, the greater the affect, behavioral control, revelation, and humor, the fewer the psychopathological symptoms. Of the studies conducted using this scale, it is noted that psychological control is associated with greater psychopathological intensity and an externalizing group of symptoms. The affect/communication dimension turned out to be the most relevant because it is associated with indicator variables of good adolescent adjustment. The indifferent style was characterized by low scores in all the previously mentioned dimensions, except in psychological control. The strict style shows lower levels of affect than the democratic style, which occurs with revelation, humor, and promotion of autonomy however, there is a high level of psychological and behavioral control. Behavioral control was not considered a relevant dimension on the contrary, the revelation of information allows fathers and mothers to achieve greater control over their child’s behavior. The democratic style is characterized by affect, the promotion of autonomy, revelation, good humor, and little psychological control. Subsequently, developed a typology of parenting styles, resulting in three styles, called democratic, strict, and indifferent. This instrument proposes a six-dimension structure: affect and communication, behavioral and psychological control, promotion of autonomy, revelation, and humor. With respect to the multidimensional approach, in addition to the variables of affect and control, other ways to measure the relationship between parents and children appear, such as the parenting styles assessment scale. Using the multidimensional models, this approach considers different latent variables shaping parenting style and puts them in relation to other facets of the adjustment or competence of their children. From these dimensions four typologies of parenting style emerge: democratic, characterized by high levels of control and affect negligent, low levels of control and affect permissive, low level of control and high level of affect and authoritarian, defined by high levels of control and low levels of affect. From the classic model comes the typological approach, based on the crossing of the variables of affect and control. The field of parenting style research distinguishes two theoretical approaches.

A definition of parenting style conceptualizes it as a set of attitudes and childcare patterns that generate an emotional climate in the parent/child relationship.

Different studies have demonstrated the impact that parenting style has from the earliest stages to adulthood.

Parenting styles are a highly relevant construct for both academia and society in general.

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