Household chaos, sociodemographic risk, coparenting, and parent-infant relations during infants’ first year.

Whitesell, Corey J.; Teti, Douglas M.; Crosby, Brian; Kim, Bo Ram

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“…Higher scores on positive coparenting indicated better quality of coparenting whereas higher scores on negative coparenting indicated worse coparenting quality. Whitesell, Teti, Crosby, & Kim (2015) found adequate reliability for positive and negative coparenting composites. Means and standard deviations at each time point are presented in Table 2.…”

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Cognitions about infant sleep: Interparental differences, trajectories across the first year, and coparenting quality.

Reader¹,

Teti²,

Cleveland³

2017

Journal of Family Psychology

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This study examined mothers’ and fathers’ beliefs about responding to infant night wakings across the first year of life, changes in those beliefs, and how individual maternal and paternal beliefs and interparental discrepancy in beliefs about responding to infant night wakings related to parents’ perceptions of coparenting quality. Participants were 167 mothers and 155 fathers who reported on their own beliefs about responding to infant night wakings and perceptions of coparenting quality when infants were 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months old. As predicted, mothers endorsed stronger beliefs about responding more immediately to infant night wakings than fathers, but for both parents these beliefs declined over the first year. Troubled beliefs about responding to infant night wakings predicted worse coparenting quality. Additionally, the discrepancy between mothers’ and fathers’ beliefs predicted coparenting quality such that a larger discrepancy in parents’ beliefs about responding to infant night wakings significantly predicted poorer perceptions of coparenting, particularly in the early months, but only when mothers endorsed stronger beliefs than fathers. Results emphasize the importance of communication and concordance in nighttime parenting practices for aspects of parents’ coparenting relationship. Future research should consider the importance of examining domain-specific parenting practices and cognitions as well as interparental discrepancies when assessing coparenting quality.

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Cognitions about infant sleep: Interparental differences, trajectories across the first year, and coparenting quality.

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Cleveland³

2017

Journal of Family Psychology

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“…Outcomes assessed included parenting, parent-child interactions, discipline, sibling relationships, parental response and reactions to child behaviours, family dysfunction, and food insecurity. Household chaos was associated with increased parent-child conflict, decreased parentchild closeness, decreased supportive parenting, decreased positive parenting, and increased negative parenting (88), in addition to less favourable co-parenting, and less emotional availability at bedtime (99). A chaotic home environment was also shown to be associated with less responsive and less stimulating parenting (89), less effective parental discipline (10), greater non-supportive responses to children's emotions and fewer supportive responses (76,94), and greater paternal hostility (95).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Twenty-one studies investigated the effects of household chaos on parenting and family functioning (4,10,46,76,(86)(87)(88)(89)(90)(91)(92)(93)(94)(95)(96)(97)(98)(99)(100)(101)(102), of which five focused on the role of household chaos as a mediator or moderator. Outcomes assessed included parenting, parent-child interactions, discipline, sibling relationships, parental response and reactions to child behaviours, family dysfunction, and food insecurity.…”

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The Relationship between Household Chaos and Child, Parent, and Family Outcomes: A Systematic Scoping Review

Marsh

Dobson

Maddison

2020

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Background: Household chaos, represented by the level of disorganisation or environmental confusion in the home, has been associated with a range of adverse child and family outcomes. This review aims to (1) identify how household chaos is measured, (2) chart study details of household chaos literature, and (3) map the existing literature with respect to the relationship between household chaos and child, parent, and family outcomes. We expect that this review will highlight the need to consider the importance of household chaos in child well-being research, particularly in those families where children may be more vulnerable to the adverse effects of household chaos.Methods: We searched five electronic databases (last updated September 1st 2018) in addition to Google Scholar, and identified publications via a 3-stage screening process, which was conducted by two researchers. Published studies were included if they investigated the association between household chaos and child, parent, or family outcomes. Research that investigated household chaos as a mediator or moderator, or that investigated how the relationship between household chaos and the outcome of interest was mediated or moderated, were also included. Results: 112 studies in 111 publications were included. The majority were conducted in the United States (n=71), and used either cross-sectional (n=60) or longitudinal (n=49) study designs. Outcomes of interest were categorised into seven categories: (1) cognitive and academic (n=16), (2) socio-emotional and behavioural (n=60), (3) communication (n=6), (4) parenting, family, and household functioning (n=21), (5) parent outcomes (n=6), (6) hormone (n=8), and (7) physical health and health behaviours (n=19). There was consistent evidence for significant correlations between household chaos and adverse outcomes across all seven categories in diverse populations with respect to age, disease status, and socio-economic status (SES).Conclusion: There is consistent evidence for associations between household chaos and a number of adverse child, parent, and family-level outcomes. Household chaos may also help describe variations in outcomes between low SES and child development.

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“…Although it is correlated with SES, there is evidence that household chaos is a distinct construct and is associated with family variables above and beyond the associations with SES (Dumas et al, 2005). Studies have demonstrated links between household chaos and a variety of family outcomes such as decreased behavioural control in children (Vrijhof, van der Voort, Van IJzendoorn, & Euser, 2018), poor quality of coparenting (Whitesell, Teti, Crosby, & Kim, 2015), and negativity in the parent-child relationship (e.g., Kahn, Deater-Deckard, King-Casas, & Kim-Spoon, 2016;Nelson, O'Brien, Blankson, Calkins, & Keane, 2009). More specifically, and relevant to the current study, studies have demonstrated consistent links between household chaos and increased harsh parenting behaviours (e.g., Coldwell, Pike, & Dunn, 2006;Mills-Koonce et al, 2016;Pike, Atzaba-Poria, & Kretschmer, 2016;Zvara et al, 2014).…”

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The Relations Among Stress, Executive Functions, and Harsh Parenting in Mothers

Park

Johnston

2020

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Stress is a common experience in most mothers' lives, and theoretical models posit that mothers' experience of stress may spillover into their parenting behaviours. However, individual factors, such as maternal executive functioning (EF) skills, may buffer the association between stress and parenting. Research has examined these associations using correlational designs with socioeconomic status (SES) and household chaos used as indicators of stress, and has demonstrated inconsistent patterns with regard to the moderating role of EF. The first aim of this study was to replicate previous findings by examining how maternal EF moderates the association between SES and household chaos, and harsh parenting. Furthermore, because correlational research designs preclude the ability to make causal inferences about the effects of stress on parenting, the second aim of this study extended existing research by investigating the effects of experimentally induced stress on harsh parenting behaviours and whether maternal EF moderates these effects. The second aim also investigated these questions in relation to childblaming attributions. To accomplish these aims, a sample of 104 mothers with children (6-10 years old) participated in a laboratory-based study. Mothers completed measures that assessed their EF skills, household chaos, SES, and harsh parenting behaviours. Additionally, mothers were randomly assigned to either a stress group, where they performed a speech in front of a panel of judges, or a control group. Following the stress (or control) induction, mothers rated their child-blaming attributions and harsh parenting behaviours in response to vignettes of common child misbehaviours. Findings from the first aim revealed an interaction between household chaos and EF (assessed with cognitive tasks), such that greater EF skills reduced the association between household chaos and harsh parenting behaviours. However, findings from the second aim indicated no significant effects of experimentally induced stress on child-blaming This study was approved by the Behavioural Research Ethics Board at the University of British Columbia (Approval Certificate Number: H17-02560).

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Household chaos, sociodemographic risk, coparenting, and parent-infant relations during infants’ first year.

Cited by 45 publications

References 38 publications

Cognitions about infant sleep: Interparental differences, trajectories across the first year, and coparenting quality.

Cognitions about infant sleep: Interparental differences, trajectories across the first year, and coparenting quality.

The Relationship between Household Chaos and Child, Parent, and Family Outcomes: A Systematic Scoping Review

The Relations Among Stress, Executive Functions, and Harsh Parenting in Mothers

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