Does Parental Mood or Efficacy Mediate the Influence of Environmental Chaos Upon Parenting Behavior?

Relation of maternal personality to perceptions of environmental chaos in the home

“…Studies have shown a significant negative relation of chaos to development in middle class samples (Gottfried & Gottfried, 1984;Hygge, Evans, & Bullinger, 2002) and when statistically controlling for family SES (Corapci & Wachs, 2002;Dumas et al, 2005;Hart et al, 2007;Petrill, Pike, Price, & Plomin, 2004;Pike et al, 2006;Tus-Sabah et al, 2011).…”

“…A number of studies supporting this hypothesis have related higher home chaos to reduced or less appropriate parental responsiveness, parental involvement, verbal stimulation of the child, object stimulation, discipline strategies, parental self-efficacy beliefs or promoting child sleep routines (Billows et al, 2009;Corapci & Wachs, 2002;Dumas et al, 2005;Evans, Eckenrode, & Marcynszyn, 2010;Evans & Hygge, 2007;Evans, Maxwell, & Hart, 1999;Matheny, Wachs, Ludwig, & Phillips, 1995;Repetti & Wang, 2010;Wachs & Camli, 1991).…”

Externalizing Behavior Problems in Preschoolers: Impact of an Inhibition Training

“…have been considered as contributors to EB [16]. Authors have also shown that household chaos seems to be associated with negative outcomes in preschoolers such as hardto-manage temperament, aggression, conduct problems or even hyperactivity [17,18]. At the child level, risk factors such as peer rejection, gender (being a boy), temperament (e.g.…”

Parental Depressive Symptoms and Children’s School-Readiness: The Indirect Effect of Household Chaos

“…Other studies have shown the opposite direction, chaotic environment influencing affected individuals' depressive symptoms. Those studies, however, view environmental noise as uncontrollable, which leads to learned helplessness (Evans and Stecker 2004) and a decrease in parenting self-efficacy (Corapci and Wachs 2002), which may in turn relate to depressive symptoms. We suggest that household chaos be viewed as an environmental factor that can be controlled by the parents, but which can be compromised by the depressive mood.…”