A longitudinal study of 200 African American students (Dotterer et al., 2013) from families with two parents concluded that increases in GPA and academic self-esteem were associated with
a. increased use of the authoritarian parenting style.
b. increases in parental warmth.
c. strict discipline and punishment for the slightest behavior problem.
d. self-motivation on the part of the adolescents studied.
Answer: b. increases in parental warmth.
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