A Multi-National Study of Interparental Conflict, Parenting,and Adolescent Functioning:South Africa, Bangladesh, China, India,Bosnia, Germany, Palestine, Colombia,and the United States

Bradford, Kay; Barber, Brian K.; Olsen, Joseph A.; Maughan, Suzanne L.; Erickson, Lance D.; Stolz, Heidi E.

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“…There was an association between harsh parenting and poor mental health outcomes in two studies 76 79. The large cross-cultural comparative study by Bradford et al 79 reported associations between harsh parenting (psychological control) and youth depression with marked invariance in results across national samples (10 out of 11 countries) 79. In the study by Okello et al, 76 harsh parenting including physical punishment was associated with poor mental health in adolescents 76.…”

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“…The studies were mainly of poor-medium quality, but three were of higher quality 75–77. Parenting practices were measured across studies using: the Parenting Style Index (in Maepa et al , 2015)78 ; a measure of psychological control (in Bradford et al 2004)79; the ‘Egna Minnen Betrafande Oppfostran’ (in Khasakhala et al )75 80 ; the Parental Bonding Instrument of Parker et al (in Mashegoane et al )81 and the Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire of Rohner and Khaleque (in Bireda) 82. In the study by Jewkes et al, 77 more severe child maltreatment was measured using the childhood trauma questionnaire (of Bernstein et al ) 77.…”

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“…Jewkes et al 77 reported baseline data from an RCT which showed that a lack of parental connection (emotional attachment) was associated with depression in males and females 77. There was an association between harsh parenting and poor mental health outcomes in two studies 76 79. The large cross-cultural comparative study by Bradford et al 79 reported associations between harsh parenting (psychological control) and youth depression with marked invariance in results across national samples (10 out of 11 countries) 79.…”

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Are parenting practices associated with the same child outcomes in sub-Saharan African countries as in high-income countries? A review and synthesis

2018

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IntroductionThere is increasing interest in the transferability of parenting interventions from high-income countries (HICs) to low-income countries (LICs) in order to improve child development and health outcomes. This is based on the premise that associations between parenting practices and child outcomes are similar in both settings. Many parenting interventions in HICs are evidence-based, but less evidence exists on associations of parenting practices with child outcomes in LICs, in particular, sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. This review synthesises evidence on the association of parenting practices with child outcomes in SSA in order to compare findings with those from HICs.MethodsWe searched electronic databases—Web of Science, ASSIA, Embase, IBSS and PsycINFO—to identify studies from SSA that reported quantitative associations between parenting practices and child health or psychosocial outcomes (eg, sexual and reproductive health (SRH), mental health, conduct disorders). Due to inconsistent conceptual framing of parenting across studies, we used a modified version of the international WHO classification of parenting dimensions to guide synthesis of the results.ResultsForty-four studies met our inclusion criteria. They were conducted in 13 SSA countries and included cross-sectional and longitudinal studies, and were predominantly descriptive studies rather than intervention research. Synthesis of results showed that associations between patterns of parenting (‘positive’/‘harsh’) and child outcomes (including SRH, mental health and conduct disorders) in studies from SSA were broadly similar to those found in HICs.ConclusionsThese findings suggest that the impacts of parenting practices on child outcomes are similar across contrasting global regions and, therefore, parenting interventions from HICs might be successfully transferred to SSA, subject to appropriate adaptation. However, this review also highlights the paucity of evidence in this area and the urgent need for higher quality studies to confirm these findings to help develop effective parenting interventions in SSA.

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“…Some marital conflict tactics involve overtly hostile behaviors, such as physical and verbal aggression (Buehler et al., ), while others may involve covert, indirect conflict behaviors between parents, such as triangulating children in the conflict and having global tension between parents (Buehler et al., ; Stone et al., ). These marital conflict tactics are concurrently and longitudinally tied to children's adjustment difficulties (Bradford et al., ; Butler & Shalit‐Naggar, ; Grych, Raynor, & Fosco, ; Keller, Cummings, Peterson, & Davies, ) and may hinder children's emotional security in family relationships.…”

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Marital Conflict and Emotional Insecurity Among Chinese Adolescents: Cultural Value Moderation

Cheung

Cummings

2015

J of Research on Adolesc

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Emotional security theory has received substantial empirical support in the literature. However, the applicability of this theory in diverse cultures is still unclear. This study examined emotional insecurity among Chinese adolescents (N = 315) and how social harmony values moderated the association between parental conflict tactics (233 mothers; 224 fathers) and adolescents' emotional insecurity. Results showed that emotional insecurity could be reliably measured among Chinese adolescents. Furthermore, a significant moderation showed that paternal conflict tactics were associated with adolescents' emotional insecurity only when they endorsed higher social harmony. In the maternal model, an overall association between maternal conflict tactics and adolescents' emotional insecurity was observed. The current findings enrich the literature on emotional security in diverse ecological contexts.

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“…Research is mixed, however, about which indicators of child adjustment are consistently related to perceived parental rejection. Parental rejection has been linked to a host of negative outcomes in children, such as behavior problems and depression (Bradford et al, 2003; Khaleque & Rohner, 2002a, 2012; Rohner & Britner, 2002; Rohner, Khaleque, & Cournoyer, 2003). Positive outcomes associated with acceptance, such as social competence and ego resilience (Ip, Cheung, & McBride-Chang, 2008; Kim, Han, & McCubbin, 2007; Swanson, Valiente, Lemery-Chalfant, & O'Brien, 2011), have also been noted, but there is less systematic research linking parental acceptance to adaptive child adjustment.…”

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Perceived mother and father acceptance‐rejection predict four unique aspects of child adjustment across nine countries

Putnick

Bornstein

Lansford

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Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Background It is generally believed that parental rejection of children leads to child maladaptation. However, the specific effects of perceived parental acceptance-rejection on diverse domains of child adjustment and development have been incompletely documented, and whether these effects hold across diverse populations and for mothers and fathers are still open questions. Methods This study assessed children's perceptions of mother and father acceptance-rejection in 1247 families from China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States as antecedent predictors of later internalizing and externalizing behavior problems, school performance, prosocial behavior, and social competence. Results Higher perceived parental rejection predicted increases in internalizing and externalizing behavior problems and decreases in school performance and prosocial behavior across three years controlling for within-wave relations, stability across waves, and parental age, education, and social desirability bias. Patterns of relations were similar across mothers and fathers and, with a few exceptions, all 9 countries. Conclusions Children's perceptions of maternal and paternal acceptance-rejection have small but nearly universal effects on multiple aspects of their adjustment and development regardless of the family's country of origin.

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A Multi-National Study of Interparental Conflict, Parenting,and Adolescent Functioning:South Africa, Bangladesh, China, India,Bosnia, Germany, Palestine, Colombia,and the United States

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Are parenting practices associated with the same child outcomes in sub-Saharan African countries as in high-income countries? A review and synthesis

Are parenting practices associated with the same child outcomes in sub-Saharan African countries as in high-income countries? A review and synthesis

Marital Conflict and Emotional Insecurity Among Chinese Adolescents: Cultural Value Moderation

Perceived mother and father acceptance‐rejection predict four unique aspects of child adjustment across nine countries

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