Current Status and Prospects of the Research on Family Parenting Styles in China in the Past 30 Years: A Visual Analysis Based on CiteSpace

Abstract

Family parenting styles play a great role in children’s formation of correct values and morals, in cognitive, emotional, and social aspects, and play a pivotal role in family education. Therefore, in order to have a clear understanding of the current research status, research hotspots, and research trends of family parenting styles, this paper mainly selects the relevant literature on the China Knowledge Network in the past 30 years and takes 478 of them, after being censored, as the samples of the study. CiteSpace was applied to analyze the number of literatures, authors, institutions, research status, research trends, and prospects of research on family parenting styles in China. In future studies, to continuously enhance the breadth and depth of their research, cooperation among authors and institutions is also needed to promote further research on family parenting styles.