The Oxford Handbook of Parenting and Moral Development

Deborah J. Laible is Professor of Psychology at Lehigh University and an expert on children's emotional and moral socialization. Although Dr. Laible's research interests focus broadly on children's development of social, emotional, and moral competence, her focus is on the role of parent-child communication in fostering moral and emotional competence. Dr. Laible has published her research in several top developmental psychology journals, including Child Development and Developmental Psychology and has received grants from the Timberlawn Foundation, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the Templeton Foundation. Gustavo Carlo is Millsap Professor of Diversity and Multicultural Studies at the University of Missouri. His main research interest is in culture, family, and personality correlates of prosocial and moral behaviors in children and adolescents. Dr. Carlo has authored numerous journal articles, received grants from a variety of agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and co-edited several volumes. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 7) and the American Psychological Society. Laura M. Padilla-Walker is Professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University. Her research focuses on how parents and media help to foster prosocial and moral development during adolescence. Dr. Padilla-Walker has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and co-edited two volumes with Oxford University Press, Prosocial Development: A Multidimensional Approach and Flourishing in Emerging Adulthood: Positive Development During the Third Decade of Life.

Section I: Introduction

1. Parenting and Moral Development: A Nuanced Approach
Deborah Laible, Gustavo Carlo, and Laura Padilla-Walker

Section II: Theoretical perspectives on parenting and moral development

2. Early Moral Development and Attachment Theory
Ross A. Thompson

3. Parenting Styles and Practices: Traditional Approaches and their Application to Multiple Types of Moral Behavior
Nina S. Mounts and Cara Allen

4. Socialization of Moral Emotions and Behavior
Tracy L. Spinrad and Nancy Eisenberg

5. Domains of Socialization: Implications for Parenting and the Development of Children's Moral Behavior and Cognitions
Joan E. Grusec

6. Evolution and the Parenting Ecology of Moral Development
Darcia Narvaez

7. Genetics, Parenting, and Moral Development
Dana Vertsberger, Salomon Israel, and Ariel Knafo-Noam

8. Parenting, Neurobiology, and Prosocial Development
Jonas G. Miller and Paul D. Hastings

Section III: Moral development and parenting in diverse contexts

9. Culture, Parenting Practices, and Moral Development
Joan G. Miller, Matthew Wice, and Namrata Goyal

10. Parenting and the Prosocial Behaviors of Children Across Cultures
Maria Rosario T. de Guzman, Aileen S. Garcia, Irene O. Padasas, and Bernice Vania N. Landoy

11. Parenting, Religion, and Moral Development
Sam A. Hardy, David C. Dollahite, and Chayce R. Baldwin

12. Development of prosocial behavior in Spanish adolescents and its relations to parenting styles
Maria Vicenta Mestre, Elisabeth Malonda, Paula Samper, Anna Llorca, and Ana Tur-Porcar

13. Parenting and Prosocial/moral Development in Asians and Asian immigrants to the U.S.
Alexandra Main

14. Parenting and Prosocial Behavior in Predominantly Muslim Countries
Asiye Kumru, Burcu Bugan, and Zehra Gulseven

15. Traditional and Culture-Specific Parenting of Prosociality in U.S. Latino/as
Gustavo Carlo and L. Diego Conejo

Section IV: Recent approaches to moral socialization

16. Mothers' and Adolescents' Conversations about Volunteering: Insights into the Reasons and Socialization Processes
Mary B. Eberly Lewis and Scott Fanz

17. The Socialization of Children's Moral Understanding in the Context of Everyday Discourse
Deborah Laible, Erin Karahuta, Clare Van Norden, Victoria Interrera, and Wyntre Stout

18. Proactive Parenting and Moral Development
Laura Padilla-Walker and Daye Son

19. Parental Knowledge and Child Disclosure as They Relate to Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviors
Robert D. Laird and Megan M. Zeringue

20. Parental Discipline Practices Associated With Preventing Children's Aggressive and Immoral Behavior
Jennifer E. Lansford

21. Helicopter Parenting, Parental Control, and Moral Development During Emerging Adulthood
Larry J. Nelson, Laura Padilla-Walker, and Daye Son

22. Socialization of moral judgments and reasoning
Marc Jambon and Judith Smetana

Section V: Future directions

23. Moral Formation in the Family: A Research Agenda in Time Future
Daniel Lapsley