Various studies have used the Parental Authority
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Questionnaire (PAQ) (Buri, 1991) to measure Baumrind’s (1971)
parental authority prototypes. For instance, Buri et al. (1988) demonstrated
that parental authoritarian style was negatively correlated with
self-esteem whereas the relationship was positive for parental authoritativeness.