scholarly journals Patterns of Parental Rearing Styles and Child Behaviour Problems among Portuguese School-Aged Children

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 454-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana I. F. Pereira ◽  
Cristina Canavarro ◽  
Margarida F. Cardoso ◽  
Denisa Mendonça
Keyword(s):  
Child Behaviour ◽  
Behaviour Problems ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Child Behaviour Problems ◽  
Parental Rearing ◽  
Parental Rearing Styles

Relative predictive utility of the original and Autism-Specific Five-Minute Speech Samples for child behaviour problems in autistic preschoolers: A preliminary study

Autism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 136236132110443
Author(s):  
Jodie Smith ◽  
Rhylee Sulek ◽  
Cherie C Green ◽  
Catherine A Bent ◽  
Lacey Chetcuti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Expressed Emotion ◽  
Child Behaviour ◽  
Behaviour Problems ◽  
Speech Sample ◽  
Autistic Children ◽  
Predictive Utility ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Five Minute Speech Sample ◽  
Child Behaviour Problems ◽  
Two Measures

Many autistic children have co-occurring behavioural problems influencing core autism symptomology potentially relevant for intervention planning. Parental Expressed Emotion – reflecting critical, hostile and overprotective comments – contributes to understanding and predicting behaviour in autistic school-aged children, adolescents and adults and is typically measured using the Five-Minute Speech Sample. However, limitations exist for its use with parents of younger autistic children and so the Autism-Specific Five-Minute Speech Sample was adapted with the goal of better measuring parent Expressed Emotion in the context of childhood autism. The Autism-Specific Five-Minute Speech Sample has not yet been used to explore Expressed Emotion in parents of autistic preschoolers, nor has the relative predictive utility of the Autism-Specific Five-Minute Speech Sample and Five-Minute Speech Sample been evaluated in the same sample. We compared the two measures from speech samples provided by 51 Australian parents with newly diagnosed autistic preschoolers, including investigating their predictive value for concurrent and subsequent child internalising and externalising behaviour problems. While Autism-Specific Five-Minute Speech Sample Expressed Emotion and Five-Minute Speech Sample Expressed Emotion were associated in this sample, only Autism-Specific Five-Minute Speech Sample codes contributed significant predictive value for concurrent and subsequent child problem behaviour. These preliminary data strengthen the position that the Autism-Specific Five-Minute Speech Sample may better capture Expressed Emotion, than the Five-Minute Speech Sample, among parents of autistic preschool-aged children. Lay abstract Parental Expressed Emotion refers to the intensity and nature of emotion shown when a parent talks about their child, and has been linked to child behaviour outcomes. Parental Expressed Emotion has typically been measured using the Five-Minute Speech Sample; however, the Autism-Specific Five-Minute Speech Sample was developed to better capture Expressed Emotion for parents of children on the autism spectrum. In each case, parents are asked to talk for 5 min about their child and how they get along with their child. Parents’ statements are then coded for features such as number of positive and critical comments, or statements reflecting strong emotional involvement. While both the Five-Minute Speech Sample and Autism-Specific Five-Minute Speech Sample have been used with parents of autistic school-aged children, their relative usefulness for measuring Expressed Emotion in parents of preschool-aged children – including their links to child behaviour problems in this group – is unclear. We collected speech samples from 51 parents of newly diagnosed autistic preschoolers to investigate similarities and differences in results from the Five-Minute Speech Sample and Autism-Specific Five-Minute Speech Sample coding schemes. This included exploring the extent to which the Five-Minute Speech Sample and Autism-Specific Five-Minute Speech Sample, separately, or together, predicted current and future child behaviour problems. While the two measures were related, we found only the Autism-Specific Five-Minute Speech Sample – but not the Five-Minute Speech Sample – was related to child behavioural challenges. This adds support to the suggestion that the Autism-Specific Five-Minute Speech Sample may be a more useful measure of parental Expressed Emotion in this group, and provides a first step towards understanding how autistic children might be better supported by targeting parental Expressed Emotion.

scholarly journals Maternal smoking during pregnancy and child behaviour problems: the Generation R Study

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 680-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine J Roza ◽  
Frank C Verhulst ◽  
Vincent WV Jaddoe ◽  
Eric AP Steegers ◽  
Johan P Mackenbach ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Smoking ◽  
Child Behaviour ◽  
Behaviour Problems ◽  
Smoking During Pregnancy ◽  
Child Behaviour Problems ◽  
Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy

scholarly journals The role of acquaintanceship in the perception of child behaviour problems

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-377
Author(s):  
Gert Kroes ◽  
Jan W. Veerman ◽  
Eric E. J. De Bruyn
Keyword(s):  
Child Behaviour ◽  
Behaviour Problems ◽  
Child Behaviour Problems

scholarly journals A Mother's Attitude Towards her Infant and Child Behaviour Five Years Later

2003 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 748-755 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Bor ◽  
Patricia A. Brennan ◽  
Gail M. Williams ◽  
Jake M. Najman ◽  
Michael O'callaghan
Keyword(s):  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Child Behaviour ◽  
Sensitive Period ◽  
Behaviour Problems ◽  
Broad Perspective ◽  
Maternal Attitude ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
Child Behaviour Problems ◽  
Clinically Significant ◽  
The Relationship

Objective: The relationship between maternal attitude to the infant at 6 months of age and behavioural outcomes at 5 years is explored, controlling for numerous demographic, child and psychosocial family factors. Method: Data was used from the Mater-University Study of Pregnancy, an Australian longitudinal study of over 7000 mothers and children followed from pregnancy to when the children were 5 years. Measures ranging from the key variables of maternal attitude and child behaviour as well as numerous confounders were dichotomised. Logistic regression analyses were performed to examine the relationship between maternal negative attitude toward the infant and clinically significant levels of child behaviour problems and other infant risks, early social risks, and concurrent social risks. Results: The results suggest that maternal negative attitude towards the infant at 6 months is an independent predictor of child behaviour problems at 5 years. This association remained significant for boys’ externalizing behaviours and girls’ internalizing behaviours. Conclusions: The findings lend support to the concept of a sensitive period in early infancy; the need for a broad perspective in the assessment of the mother-infant relationship and the need for early intervention with dysfunctional mother-infant dyads.

scholarly journals Maternal pre-pregnancy weight and externalising behaviour problems in preschool children: a UK-based twin study

BMJ Open ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. e005974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evangelia E Antoniou ◽  
Tom Fowler ◽  
Keith Reed ◽  
Taunton R Southwood ◽  
Joseph P McCleery ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Child Behavior Checklist ◽  
Child Behaviour ◽  
Shared Environment ◽  
Behaviour Problems ◽  
Common Environment ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Child Behaviour Problems ◽  
Pregnancy Weight ◽  
Internalising Problems

ObjectiveTo estimate the heritability of child behaviour problems and investigate the association between maternal pre-pregnancy overweight and child behaviour problems in a genetically sensitive design.DesignObservational cross-sectional study.SettingThe Twins and Multiple Births Association Heritability Study (TAMBAHS) is an online UK-wide volunteer-based study investigating the development of twins from birth until 5 years of age.ParticipantsA total of 443 (16% of the initial registered members) mothers answered questions on pre-pregnancy weight and their twins’ internalising and externalising problems using the Child Behavior Checklist and correcting for important covariates including gestational age, twins’ birth weight, age and sex, mother's educational level and smoking (before, during and after pregnancy).Primary outcomesThe heritability of behaviour problems and their association with maternal pre-pregnancy weight.ResultsThe genetic analysis suggested that genetic and common environmental factors account for most of the variation in externalising disorders (an ACE model was the most parsimonious with genetic factors (A) explaining 46% (95% CI 33% to 60%) of the variance, common environment (C) explaining 42% (95% CI 27% to 54%) and non-shared environmental factors (E) explaining 13% (95% CI 10% to 16%) of the variance. For internalising problems, a CE model was the most parsimonious model with the common environment explaining 51% (95% CI 44% to 58%) of the variance and non-shared environment explaining 49% (95% CI 42% to 56%) of the variance. Moreover, the regression analysis results suggested that children of overweight mothers showed a trend (OR=1.10, 95% CI 0.58% to 2.06) towards being more aggressive and exhibit externalising behaviours compared to children of normal weight mothers.ConclusionsMaternal pre-pregnancy weight may play a role in children's aggressive behaviour.

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