Determinants of mother-infant interaction in adolescent mothers

Levine, Linda M.; Coll, Cynthia T. Garcia; Oh, Won‐Oak

doi:10.1016/s0002-7138(09)61123-7

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“…In particular, compared to older mothers, the younger mothers in the present study were more intrusive, and less verbally stimulating, sensitive, and affectionate when interacting with their children. These differences are highly consistent with previous research comparing the mother-child interaction patterns of teenage and older mothers (Ragozin et al, 1982;Levine et al, 1985;Garcia Coll et al, 1987b;Culp et al, 1991;Barratt and Roach, 1995;Barnard et al, 1996). Further, in agreement with other studies (Garcia Coll et al, 1987a;Luster and Mittelstaedt, 1993), differences were also evident the quality of parenting, as measured by the HOME Inventory.…”

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“…In particular, comparisons between teenage and older mothers show that teenage mothers have parenting styles and practices that are generally less optimal for their children's early language and cognitive development. Compared with older mothers, teenage mothers tend to provide their children with less verbal stimulation (Garcia Coll et al, 1987b;Culp et al, 1991;Barratt and Roach, 1995), are less warmly affectionate (Levine et al, 1985;Barnard et al, 1996) and behave in a more intrusive and less sensitive way towards their children (Ragozin et al, 1982;Barnard et al, 1996). Furthermore, when families are compared on general measures of the quality of the home environment, teenage mothers tend to score consistently less well than older mothers (Garcia Coll et al, 1987a;Whiteside-Mansell et al, 1996;Moore et al, 1997).…”

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Language development of pre‐school children born to teenage mothers

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Woodward

Field

2001

Infant and Child Development

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This paper compares the language development of pre-school children born to teenage (n= 22) and comparison mothers (n= 20) and examines the extent to which differences in language development can be explained by social background, child and parenting factors. Mothers and children were assessed at home using a range of measures, including a structured interview, the language scales of the Child Development Inventory, the HOME Inventory, and videotaped mother-child interaction. Results showed that children of teenage mothers perform significantly poorer than children of comparison mothers on measures of expressive language and language comprehension. Subsequent analyses showed that these differences are largely explained by differences in the parenting behaviour of teenage and comparison mothers. Specifically, maternal verbal stimulation and intrusiveness accounted for the relationship between teenage motherhood and children's poorer language comprehension, while maternal intrusiveness and involvement with the child account for the relationship between teenage motherhood and children's poorer expressive language development. These findings highlight the importance of early mother-child interaction for children's language development. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Key words: language development; parent-child interaction; parenting; pre-school children; teenage mothersIn recent years there has been growing public and professional concern about the effects of teenage pregnancy and parenthood on young women and their offspring (for reviews, see Brooks-Gunn and Chase-Lansdale, 1995;Coley and Chase-Lansdale, 1998). Considerable evidence now exists to suggest that the offspring of teenage mothers are at an increased risk of a range of adverse social, cognitive and behavioural outcomes (Brooks-Gunn and Furstenberg,

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Language development of pre‐school children born to teenage mothers

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2001

Infant and Child Development

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“…This developmental crisis results in limited emotional availability of adolescent parents to their infants [46,47]. Compared with older mothers, adolescent mothers are more likely to be depressed [48 -50], and less likely to initiate verbal interaction, respond to their children [5,29,33,40,51], and show positive affect [52].…”

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Adolescent mothers: Support needs, resources, and support-education interventions

Létourneau

Stewart

Barnfather

2004

Journal of Adolescent Health

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“…Support from an adolescent mother's mother enhanced interactions between adolescent mothers and their infants (Levine, Garcia Coll, & Oh, 1985;Osofsky, Hann, & Peebles, 1993). Adolescent mothers' perception of reliability and permanence in their relationships has been associated with successful adaptation to parenthood (Boyce, Kay, & Uitti, 1988).…”

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“…Adolescent mothers' effectiveness may be challenged if their social support is limited (Herrmann, Van Cleve, & Levison, 1998). Adolescents and their children may live in socially isolated, single-parent, impoverished environments, which may lead to childhood behavioral problems (Halpern, 1993;Osofsky, Hann, & Peebles, 1993;Osofsky, Wewers, Hann, & Fick, 1993;Turner, Grindstaff, & Phillips, 1990;Wakschlag et al, 2000), learning problems (East & Felice, 1990), poor school performance, and troubled peer relationships (Levine-Coley & Chase-Landale, 1998;Levine, Garcia Coll, & Oh, 1985). The threat to care-giving imposed by adolescent mothers' limited psychosocial resources may be buffered by a supportive family environment, partner, or professional (Schellenbach, Whitman, & Borkowski, 1992).…”

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Longitudinal Study of Social-environmental Predictors of Behavior: Children of Adolescent and Older Mothers Compared

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Fedick

Willms

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Compared to older, more educated mothers, adolescent mothers are more prone to less than optimal parenting interactions with their children. Moreover, adolescents' children are more likely to experience developmental challenges. In this study, effects of social-environmental factors in the first two years of life on children's anxiety and hyperactivity from age 2 to 8 were examined by analyzing Canadian longitudinal data. Initial levels of anxiety and hyperactivity were higher for children of adolescent mothers, and anxiety increased with age for all children. Female children displayed lower initial levels of hyperactivity than males, and females of adolescent mothers showed a steeper decrease in hyperactivity while males of adolescent mothers showed a steeper increase in hyperactivity than their counterparts parented by older mothers. Parenting, social support and other demographic factors were controlled for and the effects of these predictor variables on trajectories of anxiety and hyperactivity are discussed.

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Determinants of mother-infant interaction in adolescent mothers

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Language development of pre‐school children born to teenage mothers

Language development of pre‐school children born to teenage mothers

Adolescent mothers: Support needs, resources, and support-education interventions

Longitudinal Study of Social-environmental Predictors of Behavior: Children of Adolescent and Older Mothers Compared

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