scholarly journals Mothers' and fathers' quantitative and qualitative parenting in relation to children's emotional adjustment: A between- and within-family investigation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caspar J. Van Lissa ◽  
Renske Keizer
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Emotional Adjustment ◽  
Parenting Behaviors ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Child Effects ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Family Effects ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Direction Of Effects ◽  
Family Investigation

This longitudinal study of Australian families (n = 1884, from age 6-12) examined how fathers' and mothers' quantitative involvement (time spent on childcare) and qualitative involvement (specific parenting behaviors) relate to children's emotional adjustment development. We used dynamic structural equation modeling to disentangle stable between-family differences from within-family fluctuations in qualitative parenting and emotional adjustment, allowing us to investigate the direction of effects between parents and children. Because fathers have been theorized to contribute uniquely to emotional adjustment development, we examined differences between mothers and fathers, and the interplay between parent- and child sex. We further examined whether between-family differences in quantitative involvement, operationalized as joint (total) and relative (one parent does more) involvement, predict qualitative parenting behaviors and emotional adjustment, and moderate the within-family interplay between them. Results revealed between-family correlations of qualitative involvement with emotional adjustment. Evidence for significant average within-family effects was limited to a parenting effect of maternal warmth, and several child effects, which indicated that emotional adjustment evokes changes in parenting. Parenting effects varied substantially across families however, especially for fathers. Between-family differences in quantitative involvement explained some of these differences. When joint quantitative involvement was higher, both parents engaged in more desirable qualitative parenting. When mothers were relatively more involved than fathers, fathers displayed less desirable qualitative parenting, and children were less well-adjusted. There was some limited evidence that within-family predictive effects were moderated by quantitative involvement, particularly relative involvement. These findings suggest that all family members benefit from a more equal childcare distribution.

Family Environment and Child-To-Parent Violence: The Role of Emotional Insecurity

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052110063
Author(s):  
Miriam Junco-Guerrero ◽  
Ana Ruiz-Fernández ◽  
David Cantón-Cortés
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Irrational Beliefs ◽  
Family System ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
The Family ◽  
Emotional Insecurity

Child-to-parent violence (CPV) constitutes a serious social problem due to its short and long-term consequences, which not only directly affect the victim but also generate a rupture of the family system. In this study, direct and indirect effects of exposition to violence within the family, insecurity in the family system (manifested as disengagement and/or preoccupation), and justification of violence on CPV toward mothers and fathers were analyzed with structural equation modeling (SEM). Davies and Cummings emotional security theory (1994) was applied. A total of 904 high school students between 13 and 20 years old participated in this study. Information regarding each participant’s committed CPV was obtained from the Child-to-Parent Aggression Questionnaire. Emotional insecurity was assessed with the Security in the Family System scale. To assess exposition to violence and justification of violence, the Exposure to Violence Questionnaire and Irrational Beliefs Inventory for Adolescents were applied, respectively. Strong relationships between exposition to violence within the family, emotional insecurity, justification of violence, and CPV toward mothers and fathers were observed. The results show that adolescents who are exposed to violence at home are more aggressive in the future. In addition, this relationship is mediated, at least in part, by the justification of violence and emotional insecurity. These results suggest that prevention and treatment of CPV aggressors should focus on improving security within the survivors’ family system as well as modifying attitudes toward violence.

Does Family Process Mediate the Effect of Religiosity On Adolescent Deviance?

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lloyd E. Pickering ◽  
Alexander T. Vazsonyi
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Family Process ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Relational Practice ◽  
The Relationship

A considerable amount of research has been conducted on the nature of the relationship between both religiosity and family process with deviance. There are few studies, however, that investigate the interplay among religiosity, family process, and deviance. The current study sought to examine whether family process mediates the relationship between religiosity (conceptualized as ritualistic participation and relational practice) and deviance. High school students ( N = 865) responded to survey questions dealing with religiosity (two scales), family process (six scales for both mothers and fathers), and deviance (seven subscales and a total deviance scale). A structural equation modeling (SEM) analytic approach was used. Results indicated that family process did not mediate the relationship between religiosity and deviance. Relational practice was found to be a more robust predictor of deviant behavior than ritualistic participation. Future research in this area should seek to improve methods of data collection (e.g., multimethod) and to develop better scalar measures of religiosity.

scholarly journals Material Hardship in Families With Low Income: Positive Effects of Coparenting on Fathers’ and Mothers’ Parenting and Children’s Prosocial Behaviors

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce Y. Lee ◽  
Brenda L. Volling ◽  
Shawna J. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Prosocial Behaviors ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Risk And Resilience ◽  
Material Hardship ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Responsive Parenting ◽  
Positive Effects

Families with low income experience high levels of economic insecurity, but less is known about how mothers and fathers in such families successfully navigate coparenting and parenting in the context of material hardship. The current study utilized a risk and resilience framework to investigate the underlying family processes linking material hardship and children’s prosocial behaviors in a sample of socioeconomically disadvantaged mother-father families with preschoolers from the Building Strong Families project (N = 452). Coparenting alliance and mothers’ and fathers’ responsive parenting were examined as mediators. Results of structural equation modeling showed that coparenting alliance was associated with higher levels of both mothers’ and fathers’ responsive parenting. Subsequently, both parents’ responsive parenting were associated with higher levels of children’s prosocial behaviors. Material hardship was not associated with coparenting alliance and either parent’s responsive parenting. Tests of indirect effects confirmed that the effects of coparenting alliance on children’s prosocial behaviors were mediated through both mothers’ and fathers’ responsive parenting. Overall, these results suggest that when mothers and fathers have a strong coparenting alliance, they are likely to withstand the negative effects of material hardship and thus engage in positive parenting behaviors that benefit their children’s prosocial development. Family strengthening interventions, including responsible fatherhood programs, would do well to integrate a strong focus on enhancing a positive coparenting alliance between mothers and fathers.

Dyadic Designs in Lifespan Developmental Methodology

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy B. Yorgason ◽  
Melanie S. Hill ◽  
Mallory Millett
Keyword(s):  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Daily Diaries ◽  
Intensive Longitudinal Data ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Actor Partner Interdependence Model ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Individual

The study of development across the lifespan has traditionally focused on the individual. However, dyadic designs within lifespan developmental methodology allow researchers to better understand individuals in a larger context that includes various familial relationships (husbands and wives, parents and children, and caregivers and patients). Dyadic designs involve data that are not independent, and thus outcome measures from dyad members need to be modeled as correlated. Typically, non-independent outcomes are appropriately modeled using multilevel or structural equation modeling approaches. Many dyadic researchers use the actor-partner interdependence model as a basic analysis framework, while new and exciting approaches are coming forth in the literature. Dyadic designs can be extended and applied in various ways, including with intensive longitudinal data (e.g., daily diaries), grid sequence analysis, repeated measures actor/partner interdependence models, and vector field diagrams. As researchers continue to use and expand upon dyadic designs, new methods for addressing dyadic research questions will be developed.

Backpacker Personal Development, Generalized Self-Efficacy, and Self-Esteem: Testing a Structural Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 680-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ganghua Chen ◽  
Songshan (Sam) Huang ◽  
Xianyang Hu
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Emotional Adjustment ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Two Samples

Guided by self-determination theory (SDT), this study aims to advance the theoretical understanding of backpacker personal development (BPD) by examining its relationships with two important social-psychological constructs, that is, generalized self-efficacy (GSE) and self-esteem (SE). Using two samples from different cultural groups (Chinese backpackers, n=230; Western backpackers, n=242) and applying the partial least squares structural equation modeling, the study found that among Chinese backpackers, skill development positively influenced GSE while worldview changes negatively influenced SE. For Western backpackers, capability development and emotional adjustment positively influenced their GSE. The positive effects of GSE on SE were confirmed in both samples. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Role of Emotional Intelligence as a Mediating Factor Between Uncertainty and Anxiety Hospital in Chronic Renal Patients

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Barberis ◽  
Sebastiano Costa ◽  
Lara Gitto ◽  
Rosalba Larcan ◽  
Michele Buemi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Emotional Adjustment ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Renal Diseases ◽  
Trait Emotional Intelligence ◽  
The Relationship

Renal diseases are distressing and it is, especially, the aspect of uncertainty that exerts an influence on patients’ emotional adjustment to illness. The present study investigates the relationship between uncertainty and trait emotional intelligence (EI), and the role of EI as mediator in the relationship between uncertainty, anxiety, and depression in nephropathy patients. Fifty patients were asked to complete a worksheet including the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire—Short Form, and Mishel Uncertainty in Illness Scale. Structural equation modeling has been used to examine whether trait EI mediates the relationship between uncertainty, anxiety, and depression. Through structural equation modeling, it has been demonstrated that trait EI mediated the relationship between uncertainty, anxiety, and depression. These findings suggest to develop coaching programs aimed at strengthening nephropathy patients’ emotional responses to uncertainty; in this way, it could be possible to observe an improvement in patients’ quality of life.

Parenting and young children’s emotional self-regulation in urban Korean families

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-318
Author(s):  
Soojung Kim ◽  
Susan D Holloway
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Parenting Behaviors ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Psychological Resources ◽  
Korean Mothers ◽  
Korean Families ◽  
Regulation Development ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The present study was designed to examine the relationship of Korean mothers’ psychological resources and discipline style to their children’s emotional self-regulation development. Structural equation modeling was conducted with a sample of 234 Korean mothers of kindergarten-aged children in the Incheon area in South Korea. The results indicated that maternal harshness negatively predicted and inconsistency positively predicted children’s emotional self-regulation development. Second, mothers’ psychological resources (i.e. parenting self-efficacy, enjoyment of parenting) predicted less harshness, inconsistency, and permissiveness and more responsiveness. Third, the direct path from enjoyment of parenting to permissiveness in parenting behaviors was moderated by the child’s gender. The results indicated that certain parenting behaviors, particularly permissiveness and inconsistency, may have culturally distinctive effects on children’s development in Korea.

scholarly journals Relational Model between Parental Dental Belief and Formation of Dental Fear among Preschool Children in Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (03) ◽  
pp. 426-431
Author(s):  
Arlette Suzy Setiawan ◽  
Lenny Kendhawati ◽  
Hendriati Agustiani
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Dental Fear ◽  
Relational Model ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Belief Model ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Cluster Random Sampling

Abstract Objective Parents’ behavior and belief can strongly impact preschool children. Parents play an important role in the formation of dental fear. The aim of the research is to analyze parental dental belief model as a source of dental fear among preschool children. Materials and Methods The research was undertaken at 15 kindergartens in Bandung City, Indonesia, which were chosen by means of multistage cluster random sampling. The participants of the research were parents and children aged 3 to 6. The research involved analysis of quantitative data to assess the relational model between parental dental belief and the formation of dental fear among children. While parental dental belief was measured using the Dental Belief Scale, children’s dental fear was measured using the Indonesian transadaptation of the Children’s Fear Survey Schedule-Dental Subscale based on parents’ report. The results were analyzed statistically by using structural equation modeling which is a combination of regression and factor analysis. Results The results indicate that the direct effect structural model of parental dental belief significantly fit the formation of dental fear among children in Bandung (t-value = 2.41). Conclusion The research concludes that parents’ perception and behavior—the latter contributing more—correlate with the formation of dental fear among preschool children.

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