PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Les Carlson AU - Russell N. Laczniak AU - Chad Wertley TI - Parental Style AID - 10.2501/JAR-51-2-427-435 DP - 2011 Jun 01 TA - Journal of Advertising Research PG - 427--435 VI - 51 IP - 2 4099 - http://www.journalofadvertisingresearch.com/content/51/2/427.short 4100 - http://www.journalofadvertisingresearch.com/content/51/2/427.full SO - J Advert Res2011 Jun 01; 51 AB - This article presents a synthesis of our prior work in consumer socialization of children. We focus discussion on parents as consumer-socialization agents and offer a review of the effects of parents as agents of children's consumer socialization as moderated by parental styles. Our research has uncovered one particular parental style—“authoritatives”—that appears to be more engaged in consumer socialization. We also review the more limited work on how parental styles may actually influence children and suggest avenues for future research that incorporates the parental style framework. These additional research possibilities include investigating what inherent parental characteristics may account for regarding the unique consumer-socialization formats that parents may use with children.