In studies designed to establish causal influences of parenting on child behavior (Cowan & Cowan, 2002; Cowan et al., 2005), parents (not children) received intervention. Children showed benefits from

a. improvements in the marital relationship.
b. parental adoption of the authoritarian parenting style.
c. parents being less structured in their relationships with their children.
d. authoritative parenting, but the benefits were short-lived.


Answer: a. improvements in the marital relationship.

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