Assessment of Parenting Behaviors and Style, Parenting Relationships, and Other Parent Variables in Child Assessment

Is parenting the mediator of change in behavioral parent training for externalizing problems of youth?

“…Positive parenting was included in all of the composite measures examined, suggesting that, in combination with other parenting skills (e.g., discipline), it may be important (also see McKee, Jones, Forehand, & Cuellar, 2013). Furthermore, congruent with how many BPT programs are constructed (i.e., developing positive parenting skills first; e.g., McMahon & Forehand, 2003; Zisser & Eyberg, 2010), recent evidence suggests that this parenting skill may be the foundational parenting behavior on which other parenting skills are built.…”

“…In this model, certain parenting behaviors, including positive parenting (e.g., attention, praise), discipline, and structure (e.g., rules, instructions, &, particularly for adolescents, monitoring), exert influence over their offspring's behavior through the control of reinforcing contingencies (see Forehand et al, 2013; McKee, Jones, Forehand & Cuellar, 2013, for recent reviews of the intervention and non-intervention literature on parenting & youth externalizing problems). A critical component of the social interactional model is coercion, where “parents and children mutually ‘train’ each other to behave in ways that increase the probability that children will develop aggressive behavior problems and that parents' control over these aversive behaviors will decrease” (p. 101) (Granic & Patterson, 2006).…”

The Association of Parent Mindfulness with Parenting and Youth Psychopathology Across Three Developmental Stages

“…Within the context of prevention or intervention, programs targeting mindful parenting have been shown to be related to improvements in mindful parenting, the parent-youth relationship, parenting practices, and youth psychosocial outcomes (e.g., Bögels et al, 2013; Coatsworth et al, 2010). Lastly, significant empirical support has emerged for reliable and robust associations between positive and negative parenting practices and youth psychosocial well-being (see McKee, Jones, Forehand, & Cuellar, 2013, for a review) with relationships emerging for both externalizing (e.g., Pettit, Laird, Dodge, Bates, & Criss, 2001) and internalizing (e.g., Ge, Conger, Lorenz, & Simons, 1994) problems.…”

Involvement in Child Rearing and Firm Control Parenting by Male Cohabiting Partners in Black Low-Income Stepfamilies

“…The original factor analysis of the measure yielded three factors, one of which was Firm Control vs. Lax Control. The CRPBI factors have been shown to be internally consistent, and convergent and discriminant validity has been demonstrated in prior research with predominantly middle class White samples (see McKee et al, 2013, for a review). As the measure was not developed and validated for use with MCP and mother parenting in low-income Black families and as prior research (Dunifon & Kowaleski-Jones, 2002) has indicated low alpha coefficients with similar samples for a firm control construct (.16 to .32 across years), we performed an exploratory factor analysis on the CRPBI.…”

“…In essence, although the outcomes for adolescent problem behavior is different in the two hypotheses, in both we are proposing that it is dependent, in part, on the interplay of a MCP’s involvement and firm control. We examine externalizing (e.g., aggression) and internalizing (e.g., anxiety, withdrawal, depression) problems of adolescents as involvement and firm control parenting can relate to both types of problem behaviors (McKee et al, 2013), including when MCPs are the focus of study (Bzostek, 2008). …”