The discrepancy between sensitivity beliefs and sensitive parenting behaviors of ethnic majority and ethnic minority mothers.

Author(s):  
Hatice Ekmekci ◽  
Maike Malda ◽  
Sengul Yagmur ◽  
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn ◽  
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg ◽  
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2019 ◽  
pp. 088626051988852
Author(s):  
Bharathi J. Zvara ◽  
Roger Mills-Koonce ◽  
Lynne Vernon Feagans ◽  
Martha Cox ◽  
Clancy Blair ◽  
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Children’s representational models of self and relationship quality with caregivers in the context of intimate partner violence (IPV) were investigated using family drawings created by children in their first-grade year. The present study examines the mediating role of mothers’ and fathers’ sensitive parenting behaviors in the relations between IPV and children’s representations of relationship quality with mothers and fathers. The sample ( N = 947) is drawn from a longitudinal study of rural poverty exploring the ways in which child, family, and contextual factors shape development over time. Results of analyses indicate significant associations between IPV, sensitive parenting, and children’s representation of relationship quality with mothers and fathers. There was a significant indirect effect from IPV on children’s representation of relationship quality with fathers through paternal parenting behaviors. The findings from this study suggest that exposure to violence may affect how children view their family relationships and that fathers’ parenting behavior is a key mediating process. Implications of the findings and directions for future study are proposed.


2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sengul Yagmur ◽  
Judi Mesman ◽  
Maike Malda ◽  
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg ◽  
Hatice Ekmekci

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 170-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin N. Stevens ◽  
Joseph R. Bardeen ◽  
Kyle W. Murdock

Parenting behaviors – specifically behaviors characterized by high control, intrusiveness, rejection, and overprotection – and effortful control have each been implicated in the development of anxiety pathology. However, little research has examined the protective role of effortful control in the relation between parenting and anxiety symptoms, specifically among adults. Thus, we sought to explore the unique and interactive effects of parenting and effortful control on anxiety among adults (N = 162). Results suggest that effortful control uniquely contributes to anxiety symptoms above and beyond that of any parenting behavior. Furthermore, effortful control acted as a moderator of the relationship between parental overprotection and anxiety, such that overprotection is associated with anxiety only in individuals with lower levels of effortful control. Implications for potential prevention and intervention efforts which specifically target effortful control are discussed. These findings underscore the importance of considering individual differences in self-regulatory abilities when examining associations between putative early-life risk factors, such as parenting, and anxiety symptoms.


1983 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 583-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley Sue
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