A psychologist reports that authoritative parents tend to have well-behaved children, and suggests that the parenting style influenced the children's personality development. Before we accept this conclusion, it would be most important to check whether the same results also occur in:

Authoritarian parenting.

Explanation:

Authoritative parenting is the best form of parenting when compered to the other form of parenting and Authoritarian parenting in particular.

Authoritative parenting is a type of parenting characterized by high responsiveness and high demands, while authoritarian parenting is high demanding and low responsiveness, Although both authoritative and authoritarian parents place high demands on the children, they are quite different in what they try to control.

Children raised by authoritarian parents.

Explanation:

Authoritative parents raise their children by instilling values like respect and independence in them. They set standards and rules and try to help children develop through love and positivity, taking their needs into consideration.

The authoritarian parent on the other hand enforces rules and expects the children to obey or get punished.

Before accepting the psychologist's report that children raised by authoritative parents are well behaved, they should be compared with children raised by authoritarian parents.