Do Parents and Children See Eye to Eye When It Comes to Parenting Styles? Results From a Cross‐Informant Agreement Study With Portuguese Middle‐School Children

ABSTRACT The importance of collecting data from multiple sources, particularly in studying family dynamics, is widely accepted. Thus, this study seeks to assess the agreement between parents and children on permissive, authoritative and authoritarian parenting styles while exploring the influence of the informant's sex on the agreement. A sample of 472 children and 424 parents was assessed using the Parental Authority Questionnaire and the Parenting Styles Questionnaire for Parents. Results revealed low to moderate agreement between informants for the total sample or controlling for the informant's sex. This study contributes to expanding empirical evidence and knowledge in this field, shedding light on the role of parent and child sex in reporting different parenting styles and highlighting the importance of using multiple informants to study family dynamics and processes.