scholarly journals Longitudinal associations between mothers’ and fathers’ anger/irritability expressiveness, harsh parenting, and adolescents’ socioemotional functioning in nine countries.

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 458-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Di Giunta ◽  
W. Andrew Rothenberg ◽  
Carolina Lunetti ◽  
Jennifer E. Lansford ◽  
Concetta Pastorelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Harsh Parenting ◽  
Socioemotional Functioning ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Longitudinal Associations

Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Associations Between Parents’ and Preschoolers’ Physical Activity and Television Viewing: The HAPPY Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Abbott ◽  
Jill Hnatiuk ◽  
Anna Timperio ◽  
Jo Salmon ◽  
Keren Best ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Cohort Study ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Television Viewing ◽  
Tv Viewing ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Parental Modeling ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Longitudinal Associations ◽  
Children’S Physical Activity

Background:Parental modeling has been shown to be important for school-aged children’s physical activity (PA) and television (TV) viewing, yet little is known about its impact for younger children. This study examined cross-sectional and 3-year longitudinal associations between PA and TV viewing behaviors of parents and their preschool children.Methods:In 2008–2009 (T1), parents in the Healthy Active Preschool and Primary Years (HAPPY) cohort study (n = 450) in Melbourne, Australia, self-reported their weekly PA and TV viewing and proxy-reported their partner’s PA and TV viewing and their 3- to 5-year-old preschool child’s TV viewing. Children’s PA was assessed via accelerometers. Repeat data collection occurred in 2011–2012 (T2).Results:Mothers’ and fathers’ PAs were associated with PA among preschool girls at T1, but not boys. Parents’ TV viewing times were significant correlates of girls’ and boys’ TV viewing at T1. Longitudinally, mothers’ PA at baseline predicted boys’ PA at T2, whereas sex-specific associations were found for TV viewing, with mothers’ and fathers’ TV viewing at T1 associated with girls’ and boys’ TV viewing respectively at T2.Conclusions:The PA and TV viewing of both parents are significantly associated with these behaviors in preschool children. The influence of the sex-matched parent appears to be important longitudinally for children’s TV viewing.

Cohabiting parents’ marriage plans and marriage realization

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung-Bong Cho ◽  
Ming Cui ◽  
Amy M. Claridge
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Child Wellbeing ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Fragile Family ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Logistic Regressions ◽  
Longitudinal Associations

The purpose of this study is to examine how cohabiting partners’ plans to marry after the birth of their child were associated with marriage realization or continued cohabitation when their child was 1, 3, and 5 years old. Possible parents’ gender differences, couple agreement, and the longitudinal associations were examined. Using four waves of data from the Fragile Family and Child Wellbeing Study, results from logistic regressions showed that (1) the majority of cohabiting mothers and fathers had plans to marry their partner after the birth of their child; (2) in general, mothers’ plans to marry were significantly associated with couples’ marriage realization whereas fathers’ were not; (3) agreements between partners in their marriage plans were associated with marriage realization. Other relational and demographic characteristics were also considered. Research and clinical implications of the findings were discussed.

Longitudinal associations between mothers' and fathers' sense of competence and children's externalizing problems: The mediating role of parenting.

2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 1554-1562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meike Slagt ◽  
Maja Deković ◽  
Amaranta D. de Haan ◽  
Alithe L. van den Akker ◽  
Peter Prinzie
Keyword(s):  
Externalizing Problems ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Sense Of Competence ◽  
Longitudinal Associations

scholarly journals Sex Differences in the Intergenerational Transmission of Harsh Punishment of Children in Ghana

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Georg Darko
Keyword(s):  
Physical Punishment ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Harsh Parenting ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Harsh Punishment ◽  
National Values ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Children Exposure ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of the study was to assess the relationship between mothers’ and fathers’ use of harsh punishment on their children and their retrospective accounts of their own experiences of harsh parenting in childhood, in Ghana. Participants consisted of 1,202 parents (601 mothers and 601 fathers) who completed a questionnaire on harsh disciplinary practices. The findings showed associations between mothers’ and fathers’ childhood experiences of harsh punishment and their current use of such disciplinary techniques on their own children. Exposure and transmission varied by sex in that males were more exposed to harsh punishment when they were young than females, and they also punished their own children more often than females. Both males and females assessed that they used much less harsh parenting than they themselves had been exposed to as young. The use of physical punishment is a shared cultural value that is rooted as part of the Ghanaian national values. However, transmission in the use of harsh disciplinary measures across generations may be broken if younger generations of parents learn to use alternative ways of disciplining a child.

Individual and Family Factors Contributing to Mothers’ and Fathers’ Positive Parenting

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Russell
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Marital Quality ◽  
Positive Parenting ◽  
Family Factors ◽  
Predictor Variables ◽  
Harsh Parenting ◽  
Child Characteristics ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Intact Families

Individual and family factors contributing to harsh parenting have been investigated, but little is known of how comparable factors contribute to positive parenting. In the study reported, the contributions to positive parenting of parent positive personality qualities, positive child characteristics, and marital quality were investigated in a middle class sample of intact families in which the eldest child was 6-7 years of age. A positive parenting composite was formed by summing measures relating to self-reported positive involvement with the child, observed warmth/affection, and observed positive involvement. Moderate associations were found between positive parenting and the predictor variables, with these significant for mothers but not for fathers. The absence of associations for father variables occurred in both father-son and father-daughter dyads. The most consistent predictions were in the mother-son dyad. Therefore, whereas factors contributing to positive parenting were identified, gender differences were suggested by the findings.

scholarly journals Parenting and adolescents’ psychological adjustment: Longitudinal moderation by adolescents’ genetic sensitivity

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 1289-1304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare M. Stocker ◽  
April S. Masarik ◽  
Keith F. Widaman ◽  
Ben T. Reeb ◽  
Jason D. Boardman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Linear Regression ◽  
Psychological Adjustment ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Differential Susceptibility ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Genes And Environment ◽  
Susceptibility Model ◽  
Longitudinal Associations ◽  
Adjustment Outcomes

AbstractWe examined whether adolescents’ genetic sensitivity, measured by a polygenic index score, moderated the longitudinal associations between parenting and adolescents’ psychological adjustment. The sample included 323 mothers, fathers, and adolescents (177 female, 146 male; Time 1 [T1] average age = 12.61 years, SD = 0.54 years; Time 2 [T2] average age = 13.59 years, SD = 0.59 years). Parents’ warmth and hostility were rated by trained, independent observers using videotapes of family discussions. Adolescents reported their symptoms of anxiety, depressed mood, and hostility at T1 and T2. The results from autoregressive linear regression models showed that adolescents’ genetic sensitivity moderated associations between observations of both mothers’ and fathers’ T1 parenting and adolescents’ T2 composite maladjustment, depression, anxiety, and hostility. Compared to adolescents with low genetic sensitivity, adolescents with high genetic sensitivity had worse adjustment outcomes when parenting was low on warmth and high on hostility. When parenting was characterized by high warmth and low hostility, adolescents with high genetic sensitivity had better adjustment outcomes than their counterparts with low genetic sensitivity. The results support the differential susceptibility model and highlight the complex ways that genes and environment interact to influence development.

Children’s poor academic performance evokes parental homework assistance—but does it help?

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gintautas Silinskas ◽  
Pekka Niemi ◽  
Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen ◽  
Jari-Erik Nurmi
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Math Skills ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Poor Academic Performance ◽  
Reading And Math ◽  
Longitudinal Associations

This study investigated the longitudinal associations between type of parental homework assistance and children’s academic performance during grade 1 and grade 2. The reading and math skills of 2,261 children were measured three times during grade 1 and grade 2, and the children’s mothers and fathers filled in questionnaires on the type of homework assistance they engaged in. The results showed that the worse reading and math skills children showed at the beginning of grade 1 and grade 2, the more monitoring and helping with homework parents reported later on. The results suggest, overall, that children’s academic performance has an “evocative impact” on their parents’ behavior.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document