TY - JOUR T1 - Positive parenting in adolescence is associated with well-(adaptive-) functioning adult offspring JF - Evidence Based Medicine JO - Evid Based Med SP - 127 LP - 128 DO - 10.1136/ebmed.2011.100353 VL - 17 IS - 4 AU - Luna C Muñoz Y1 - 2012/08/01 UR - http://ebm.bmj.com/content/17/4/127.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Johnson JG, Liu L, Cohen P. Parenting behaviours associated with the development of adaptive and maladaptive offspring personality traits. Can J Psychiatry 2011;56:447–56.OpenUrlPubMed Parenting behaviours clearly have an effect on children but how they impact adult behaviour has received less attention. Johnson et al aimed to determine the association between parenting behaviours and the coping skills, interpersonal skills and personality traits of children that persist into adulthood. They examined this issue by conducting longitudinal research with mothers and children. Prior meta-analyses show positive parenting programmes work for improving children's behaviours.1 This study provides additional evidence of a long-term effect. Mothers and offspring of the 669 families who participated reported on positive parenting (eg, affection, praise and communication) and child behaviours when the offspring were around 16 years of age. At follow-up, adaptive functioning (eg, optimism, insight/warmth, productivity and being assertive or expressing oneself skilfully) and … ER -