Resumo

MOLINA-PALENCIA, Carolina Andrea et al. Relationship Between Parental Regulatory Focus Care and Child-Care Attitudes in the Colombian Caribbean. Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto) [online]. 2025, vol.35, e3522.  Epub 28-Nov-2025. ISSN 0103-863X.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-4327e3522.

The parental regulatory focus theory (RFT) suggests that parents or caregivers engage in two broad types of behaviors with their children: promotion focus, which involves promoting positive behaviors, and prevention focus, which involves avoiding negative consequences. The aim of this study is to establish the relationship between attitudes towards childcare and the parental regulatory focus in a sample of caregivers from the Caribbean region of Colombia. The results showed that both the promotion and the prevention focus were related to more positive attitudes towards childcare. It was also possible to identify that those who show a higher degree of presence of both caregiving’s regulatory foci have a more positive attitude towards childcare than those who only favor one of the focuses.

Palavras-chave : attitude; childcare; parental regulatory focus; childhood; caregivers.

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