Research trend on parenting styles from 1977 to 2020: A bibliometric analysis

Abstract

Parenting styles have an important and central role in the family and are one of the factors for developing children's personality and behavior. The purpose of this study was to determine the research trends of parenting styles from the Scopus database during the 1977-2020 period using bibliometric analysis. Based on the keywords used related to parenting styles in the article title, which were taken from the Scopus bibliographic database, on Tuesday, November 10 2020, 10.52 pm, 1323 documents were taken and further analyzed using various tools. Microsoft excel is used to perform frequency analysis, VOSviewer for data visualization and Harzing's Publish or Perish is used for citation and analysis metrics. The results showed that there was an increase in literature on parenting styles from 1977 to 2020, and a significant increase since 2006.There have been various studies that have been conducted on parenting styles involving multi-author collaboration published in various languages, with a total of 159 authors from 79 different countries and 160 institutions. The United States is the largest contributor to research on parenting styles, followed by Spain and Iran. The Journal of Child and Family Studies publishes the most publication on parenting styles. This study only uses the keyword parenting styles in the article title and is limited to the Scopus database.