A Longitudinal Study of the Consequences of Early Mother-Infant Interaction: A Microanalytic Approach

Martin, John A.

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Section: Identifying Maternal Predictors Of Rejecting Parentingmentioning

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“…Furthermore, some of the most widely referenced theories on the development of antisocial behavior, such as Patterson's social learning model (Patterson 1982;Reid et al 2002), emphasize parenting as a mediator of numerous contextual factors on youth antisocial outcomes, including maternal factors (for a review, see Reid et al 2002). More recent models have mapped out how parent-child coercive processes leading to child antisocial outcomes may be initiated in early childhood (Shaw and Bell 1993;Shaw et al 2000), for which empirical validation has been repeatedly found (Aguilar et al 2000;Martin 1981;Shaw et al 2003; see Shaw and Gross 2007). Multiple intervention programs with an emphasis on modifying parenting attitudes and behaviors during early childhood have been associated with reductions in antisocial behavior from preschool to adolescence (Olds 2002;Shaw et al 2006;Webster-Stratton and Hammond 1997).…”

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“…Early negative parent-child interactions are then posited to influence parents' ability to cope with the onset of mobility and noncompliance during the toddler period. Parents' frustration and lack of skill with the onset of toddler mobility and noncompliance, particularly when coupled with a challenging young child, lead to negative, aversive interactions between the caregiver and toddler and set the stage for coercive exchanges (Martin 1981). These negative, coercive exchanges often lead to further noncompliance, oppositional behavior, and increasing levels of antisocial behavior across childhood and adolescence (Patterson 1982;Shaw et al 2000).…”

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“…As discussed in more detail below, each of these resources has some empirical support as a predictor of parenting practices. Because child behavior contributes to the likelihood of negative and harsh forms of parenting (Bell 1968;Martin 1981;Shaw et al 2000), we examined these resources and parenting while also accounting for toddler difficult temperament.Age at First Birth-Young first-time mothers are posited to demonstrate greater levels of harsh, unskilled parenting for a few reasons. First, younger mothers' early experiences as parents occur during their adolescent years when important developmental processes involving self-regulation are still underway (Dahl 2004).…”

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Maternal Predictors of Rejecting Parenting and Early Adolescent Antisocial Behavior

Trentacosta

Shaw

2007

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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The present study examined relations among maternal psychological resources, rejecting parenting, and early adolescent antisocial behavior in a sample of 231 low-income mothers and their sons with longitudinal assessments from age 18 months to 12 years. The maternal resources examined were age at first birth, aggressive personality, and empathy. Each of the maternal resources predicted rejecting parenting during early childhood in structural equation models that controlled for toddler difficult temperament, and rejecting parenting in early childhood predicted antisocial behavior in early adolescence. Rejecting parenting accounted for the indirect effect of each of the maternal resources on antisocial behavior, but a direct effect was also supported between maternal aggressive personality and youth antisocial behavior. Results highlight the importance of these relatively understudied maternal resources and have implications for prevention and intervention programs that focus on parenting during early childhood. KeywordsAge at first birth; Maternal personality; Empathy; Rejecting parenting; Antisocial behavior Belsky (1984) has suggested that specific types of parental attributes, termed psychological resources, are one of three primary determinants of parenting and include factors such as personality, psychopathology, and level of maturity (Belsky 1984;Belsky and Jaffee 2006). Empirical work on associations between maternal psychological resources, parenting, and child adjustment has focused extensively on a fairly narrow range of psychological resources. For example, across a large number of studies, depressed mothers demonstrate low levels of sensitivity in their care of young children and have children with a wide range of behavioral and emotional problems (e.g., NICHD Early Child Care Research Network 1999; Zahn-Waxler et al. 1990; for a review see Downey and Coyne 1990). Other maternal psychological resources that may be potentially important predictors of parenting and child adjustment have received relatively less attention. The present study sought to examine how three important but relatively under-represented maternal psychological resources might be related to rejecting parenting during the toddler period and antisocial behavior in early adolescence. The three psychological resources were maternal age at first birth, aggressive personality, and empathy. These three © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007 Correspondence to: Christopher J. Trentacosta, trentacostacj@upmc.edu. Maternal Predictors of Rejecting Parenting and Early Adolescent Antisocial Behavior NIH Public Access NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript resources were chosen based on their theoretical and empirical links to rejecting parenting during the toddler period. Thus, a first goal of the study was to examine these resources as predictors of early childhood rejecting parenting while controlling for toddler difficult temperament.Rejecting parenting also has been associated with acrimony ...

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Section: Identifying Maternal Predictors Of Rejecting Parentingmentioning

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Section: Nih-pa Author Manuscriptmentioning

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Section: Rejecting Parenting In Early Childhoodmentioning

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Maternal Predictors of Rejecting Parenting and Early Adolescent Antisocial Behavior

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Shaw

2007

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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“…Self-and interactive regulation are curiously separate in the research literature. Interactive regulation is the main theme and predicts social and cognitive outcomes (Bakeman, Adamson, Brown, & Eldridge, 1989;Cohn, Campbell, Matias, & Hopkins, 1990;Cohn & Tronick, 1988;Jaffe, Beebe, Feldstein, Crown, & Jasnow, 2001;Lewis & Feiring, 1989;Leyendecker, Lamb, Fracasso, Scholmerich, & Larson, 1997;Malatesta, Culver, Rich, & Shepard, 1989;Martin, 1981;Tronick, 1989).…”

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Six‐week postpartum maternal depressive symptoms and 4‐month mother–infant self‐ and interactive contingency

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Jaffe²,

Buck³

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Infant Mental Health Journal

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Associations of 6-week maternal depressive symptoms [Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D)] with 4-month mother-infant self-and interactive contingency patterns during face-to-face play were investigated in 132 dyads. Self-and interactive contingency (auto-and lagged cross-correlation, respectively) were assessed by multilevel time-series analysis. Infant and mother gaze, facial and vocal affect, touch, and spatial orientation behaviors were coded second-by-second from splitscreen videotape, and a multimodal measure of facial-visual "engagement" was constructed, generating nine modality pairings. With higher CES-D, the self-contingency of both partners was lowered in most modalities. With higher CES-D, interactive contingency values were both heightened (in some modalities) and lowered (in others), varying by partner. These results are consistent with an optimal midrange model. With higher CES-D, interactive contingency showed the following patterns: (a) Mothers and their infants had a reciprocal orientational sensitivity; (b) mothers and infants manifested a reciprocal intermodal discordance in attention versus affect coordination, lowering gaze coordination, but heightening affective coordination; (c) infants heightened, but mothers lowered, touch coordination with partner touch-an "infant approach-mother withdraw" touch pattern. Nonlinear analyses indicated that altered self-and interactive contingency were similar at both the low ("denial") as well as the high ("endorsement") poles of depressive symptoms, in half the findings. These complex, multimodal findings define different aspects of communication disturbance, with relevance for therapeutic intervention. RESUMEN: En un grupo de 132 díadas se investigaron las asociaciones entre los síntomas de depresión maternal a las 6 semanas (CES-D) y patrones de 4 meses de contingencia propia e interactiva entre la madre y el infante durante el juego cara a cara. Las contingencias propia e interactiva (propia y demorada correlación mutua, respectivamente) fueron evaluadas por medio de un análisis a varios niveles y en una serie de momentos temporales. La mirada del infante y la madre, el afecto facial y vocal, el acto de tocarse, y las conductas de orientación espacial fueron codificadas sección por sección, a partir de una videograbación con pantalla dividida, y una medida multimodal de contacto facial y visual fue construída, todo lo cual generó 9 pareamientos de modalidades. En los casos de más altos niveles de CES-D, la autocontingencia de cada una de las partes bajó en la mayoría de las modalidades. En los casos de más altos niveles de CES-D, los valores de contingencia interactiva subieron en ambas personas (en algunas modalidades) y bajaron (en otras), según cada individuo, consistente con un modelo intermedioóptimo. En los casos de niveles más altos de CES-D, la contingencia interactiva mostró los siguientes patrones: (1) las madres y sus infantes tenían una sensibilidad de orientación recíproca; (2) las madres y los infantes m...

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Further Measures of the Psychometric Properties of the Children's Global Assessment Scale

Bird¹

1987

Arch Gen Psychiatry

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A Longitudinal Study of the Consequences of Early Mother-Infant Interaction: A Microanalytic Approach

Cited by 205 publications

References 48 publications

Maternal Predictors of Rejecting Parenting and Early Adolescent Antisocial Behavior

Maternal Predictors of Rejecting Parenting and Early Adolescent Antisocial Behavior

Six‐week postpartum maternal depressive symptoms and 4‐month mother–infant self‐ and interactive contingency

Further Measures of the Psychometric Properties of the Children's Global Assessment Scale

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