ABSTRACT

Andrea B. Erzinger1 and Andrea E. Steiger2 1Institute of Research on Teaching Profession and on Development of Competencies, University of Teacher Education St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland 2Institute of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zu¨rich, Switzerland

A large body of literature has revealed the intergenerational transmission of parenting behaviour and beliefs. These transmission effects hold for both problematic (Capaldi, Pears, Patterson, & Owen, 2003; Simons, Whitbeck, Conger, & Chyi-in, 1991) and positive parenting (Belsky, Jaffee, Sligo,

This publication is based on data from a research project funded by a grant (PMCDP1_129113) from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).