Mothers’ Perceptions of Young Children, Parenting, and Young Children's Behavior Problems

Renk, Kimberly

doi:10.1080/07317107.2011.571139

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“…Parental perceptions may prove an important target for intervention (Mackler et al., ). Research suggests that parents’ negative perceptions can adversely affect their interactions with children, setting up trajectories that influence children's developmental outcomes (Renk, ). Parent support programs may benefit from promoting parental understanding of temperamental characteristics, particularly in parents of temperamentally challenging children, thereby improving both the quality of the parent–child relationship and later developmental outcomes.…”

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A Person‐Centered Approach to Child Temperament and Parenting

Dalimonte-Merckling

Brophy‐Herb

2018

Child Development

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The aim of this study was to examine how variations in children's temperamental reactivity and mothers' parenting stress relate to parenting behavior. A sample of 3,001 mother-child dyads was assessed when children were 14, 24, 36, and 54 months. Latent profile analysis identified a group of temperamentally "easy" children whose mothers experienced little parenting stress, along with two groups of highly reactive children differentiated by mothers' stress levels. Maternal negative regard over time was highest in the group of reactive children with highly stressed mothers. Mothers in this group also perceived more child behavior problems and had less knowledge of child development. Results are discussed relative to Person × Environment interactions and the complex interplay between parent and child characteristics.

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A Person‐Centered Approach to Child Temperament and Parenting

Dalimonte-Merckling

Brophy‐Herb

2018

Child Development

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“…Nevertheless, the current model still bears meaningful influences among the constructs assessed. There has been an increased focus on mothers' perceptions of their children as a predictor of child outcomes broadly (Renk, ) and with regard to parenting stress and child behavior problems more specifically (e.g., McMahon & Meins, ; Renk et al, ). We believe that the use of self‐report measures is justifiable and necessary to best index self‐referential perceptions that speak to personal experiences by mothers related to parenting, stress, and their children's behavioral adjustment.…”

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Parenting Stress, Parental Reactions, and Externalizing Behavior From Ages 4 to 10

Mackler

Kelleher

Shanahan

et al. 2015

J of Marriage and Family

191

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The association between parenting stress and child externalizing behavior, and the mediating role of parenting, has yielded inconsistent findings; however, the literature has typically been cross-sectional and unidirectional. In the current study the authors examined the longitudinal transactions among parenting stress, perceived negative parental reactions, and child externalizing at 4, 5, 7, and 10 years old. Models examining parent effects (parenting stress to child behavior), child effects (externalizing to parental reactions and stress), indirect effects of parental reactions, and the transactional associations among all variables, were compared. The transactional model best fit the data, and longitudinal reciprocal effects emerged between parenting stress and externalizing behavior. The mediating role of parental reactions was not supported; however, indirect effects suggest that parenting stress both is affected by and affects parent and child behavior. The complex associations among parent and child variables indicate the importance of interventions to improve the parent–child relationship and reducing parenting stress.

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“…Our results also point toward the clinical relevance of assessing external stressors and the mother's perceived parenting stress to reach a deeper understanding of her situation, in particular the perception of her child's positive and negative social adjustment. Renk () points out that interventions focusing on change in mothers' perceptions of their young children and their parenting behaviors could be related to decreases in young children's behavior problems. Using a transactional view several possibilities to design creative interventions open up.…”

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Parenting stress and external stressors as predictors of maternal ratings of child adjustment

Östberg

Hageküll

2013

Scandinavian J Psychology

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This study sought to disentangle the effects of different kinds of stress on maternal ratings of child externalizing and internalizing problems, social inhibition, and social competence, with a primary focus on parenting stress. The relations were explored in a sample consisting of mothers of 436 children (Mage = 7 years) in Sweden. Half the sample had had early clinical contacts during infancy due to child regulation problems, and the rest were mothers without known such early contacts. Demographic factors, family stressors, and parenting stress were examined in stress - adjustment models. Family stressors were clinical contact during infancy, current child and parent health problems, recent negative life events, and insufficient social support. Parenting stress as a mediator of the effect of other stressors on rated child adjustment was tested as was social support as a moderator of the effect of parenting stress on adjustment. The results showed that a higher parenting stress level was associated with maternal ratings of more externalizing and internalizing behaviors, more social inhibition, and lower social competence. Other family stressors and background variables were also found to be of importance, mainly for externalizing and internalizing problems and to some extent for social competence. Social inhibition had a unique relation to parenting stress only. Parenting stress mediated effects of other stressors in twelve models, whereas social support had no moderating effect on the link between parenting stress and child adjustment. Thus, parenting stress seems to be an important overarching construct. Clinical implications are proposed.

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Mothers’ Perceptions of Young Children, Parenting, and Young Children's Behavior Problems

Cited by 15 publications

References 24 publications

A Person‐Centered Approach to Child Temperament and Parenting

A Person‐Centered Approach to Child Temperament and Parenting

Parenting Stress, Parental Reactions, and Externalizing Behavior From Ages 4 to 10

Parenting stress and external stressors as predictors of maternal ratings of child adjustment

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