Abstract: Parents and children are frequently found to report differently in their perceptions of parenting,and parents' perception is generally more positive than children's,which is due to that parents and children attribute to different reasons after noticing different details of the same parenting behavior,and their perceptions are affected by factors in individual level such as gender and age,in dyadic level such as communication and attachment,and in entire level such as family structure,function and background.To assess the discrepancies in parent-child perceptions of parenting,three kinds of methods are introduced,including analyzing divergence patterns,calculating discrepancy scores,and taking both into account.Based on the update assessment,researchers explored the influence of these discrepancies on children's autonomous development,emotional and behavioral problems,social adaptation,academic achievement and so on.

Key words: parenting, parent-child, perceptional discrepancy