García, FernandoFernandéz-Doménech, LeonorVeiga, Feliciano HenriquesBono, RoserSerra, EmiliaOchoa Gonzalo, Musitu2015-07-232015-07-232015García, F., Fernandéz-Doménech, L., Veiga, F. H., Bono, R., Serra, E., & Musito, G. (2015). Parenting Styles and Parenting Practices: Analyzing Current Relationships in the Spanish Context. In F. García (ed.), Parenting – Cultural Influences and Impact on Childhood Health and Well-Being (pp. 17-31). NY: Nova Publishers.978-1-63482-493-4http://hdl.handle.net/10451/19861This chapter analyzes current evidence between parenting styles and parenting practices for the Spanish context. As opposed to traditional results obtained in Anglo- Saxon contexts with European-American samples, evidence from emergent research from Spain (a South European country) shows that adolescents from indulgent families (characterized by warmth but not strictness) are strongly related to the psychological autonomy granting parenting practice. Interestingly, psychological autonomy granting is positively related to warmth, but negatively related to strictness, just in the opposite end of the rejection and psychological control, that are both strong related to the authoritarian parenting style (characterized by strictness but not warmth). However, in line with traditional results obtained in samples from Anglo-Saxon contexts, behavioral control parenting practices are positively related with the authoritative parenting style (warmth and strictness) and negatively related with the neglectful parenting style (characterized by neither warmth nor strictness). In Spain, psychological autonomy granting is unrelated (i.e, orthogonal) to the behavioral control parenting practice, and in the opposite end of psychological control and rejection parental practices. Psychological control and psychological autonomy granting are distinct constructs, they are not the opposite ends of a continuum construct.engParenting PracticesParenting StylesPsychological Autonomy GrantingPsychological Controlbook part