Multilevel Mediation: Cumulative Contextual Risk, Maternal Differential Treatment, and Children's Behavior Within Families

Meunier, Jean; Boyle, Michael H.; O’Connor, Thomas G.; Jenkins, Jennifer M.

doi:10.1111/cdev.12066

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“…The present findings replicate previous research showing an association between cumulative risk exposure and engagement in maladaptive coping (Leitenberg, Gibson, & Novy, 2004), and also contributes to the literature by showing this association in a population whose coping strategies in the context of cumulative risk have been under-studied. The findings also support those of prior studies showing detrimental effects of cumulative risk on child outcomes through either direct or indirect links (Buehler & Gerard; 2013; Meunier et al, 2013). …”

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confidence: 89%

“…Following prior studies (Buehler & Gerard, 2013; Meunier, Boyle, O'Connor, & Jenkins, 2013), in order not to mask the unique contribution of each individual risk factor, supplemental analyses were performed to examine the association between each individual risk factor, coping and problem behaviors. Regression analyses were performed using individual risk factors as predictors of behavior problems and each dimension of coping.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Cumulative contextual risk and behavior problems among children with substance using mothers: The mediating role of mothers’ and children’s coping strategies.

Zhang¹,

Slesnick²

2016

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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Substance using mothers vary in their exposure to an accumulation of contextual risks associated with their drug-using life styles, likely leading to variability in their children’s behavioral outcomes. The present study examined a mediation model interrelating mothers’ cumulative risk exposure, children’s behavior problems, and coping strategies of both mothers and children. Findings showed that mothers’ greater exposure to cumulative risk was associated with lower utilization of task-oriented coping and higher utilization of emotion-oriented coping. Further, mothers' emotion-oriented coping mediated the association between mothers’ cumulative risk exposure and children’s behavior problems. These findings underscore the importance of considering the family socialization context in understanding children’s problem behaviors in a high risk population. The finding that mothers’ emotion-oriented coping exerted a strong influence on children’s behavior problems suggests that emotion-oriented coping may be a critical intervention target for family-based prevention interventions.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cumulative contextual risk and behavior problems among children with substance using mothers: The mediating role of mothers’ and children’s coping strategies.

Zhang¹,

Slesnick²

2016

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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“…In general, studies on the moderation of cognitive development by environmental factors have focused on the associations between child poverty and accumulation of risk factors (Gassman-Pines and Yoshikawa, 2006; Weiland and Yoshikawa, 2012; Flouri et al, 2013; Meunier et al, 2013). Less analytical efforts have been devoted to moderation based on risk factors in the area of intervention science.…”

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confidence: 99%

Predictors of cognitive enhancement after training in preschoolers from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds

Segretin¹,

Lipina²,

Hermida³

et al. 2014

Front. Psychol.

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The association between socioeconomic status and child cognitive development, and the positive impact of interventions aimed at optimizing cognitive performance, are well-documented. However, few studies have examined how specific socio-environmental factors may moderate the impact of cognitive interventions among poor children. In the present study, we examined how such factors predicted cognitive trajectories during the preschool years, in two samples of children from Argentina, who participated in two cognitive training programs (CTPs) between the years 2002 and 2005: the School Intervention Program (SIP; N = 745) and the Cognitive Training Program (CTP; N = 333). In both programs children were trained weekly for 16 weeks and tested before and after the intervention using a battery of tasks assessing several cognitive control processes (attention, inhibitory control, working memory, flexibility and planning). After applying mixed model analyses, we identified sets of socio-environmental predictors that were associated with higher levels of pre-intervention cognitive control performance and with increased improvement in cognitive control from pre- to post-intervention. Child age, housing conditions, social resources, parental occupation and family composition were associated with performance in specific cognitive domains at baseline. Housing conditions, social resources, parental occupation, family composition, maternal physical health, age, group (intervention/control) and the number of training sessions were related to improvements in specific cognitive skills from pre- to post-training.

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“…Most studies found that differential parenting leads to less compliance and prosocial behavior, and more externalizing behavior in the less favored sibling, although there is also some evidence that it may lead to more prosocial behavior in the less favored sibling (Knafo 2009). Differential parenting has also been related to more social problems in both siblings, the favored as well as less favored (Meunier et al 2013). In early childhood, sharing with siblings and compliance are central aspects of social development within the family context (Knafo and Plomin 2006;Kochanska and Aksan 2006), so differential sensitivity during toddlerhood may be especially relevant for the development of these behaviors.…”

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confidence: 99%

Parental Sensitivity Towards Toddlers and Infant Siblings Predicting Toddler Sharing and Compliance

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Children with younger brothers or sisters are exposed to parenting directed towards themselves as well as parenting directed towards their siblings. We examined the hypothesis that mothers' and fathers' sensitive parenting towards their second-borns predicts compliance and sharing behavior in their firstborns, over and above their parenting towards their firstborns. In a sample of 388 families with a toddler and infant, parental sensitivity, child sharing behavior, and child compliance were observed during two different home visits, one with father and one with mother present. The results showed that toddlers shared more with their younger siblings and showed more compliance when their fathers were more sensitive towards them, but only if fathers showed low sensitivity towards the younger siblings. We suggest two explanations: toddlers may show more positive behavior to ensure continuation of their favored position, or they may compensate for the lack of fathers' sensitivity towards the younger siblings. Our study highlights the importance of the broader family context of parenting for child socio-emotional development.

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Multilevel Mediation: Cumulative Contextual Risk, Maternal Differential Treatment, and Children's Behavior Within Families

Cited by 72 publications

References 118 publications

Cumulative contextual risk and behavior problems among children with substance using mothers: The mediating role of mothers’ and children’s coping strategies.

Cumulative contextual risk and behavior problems among children with substance using mothers: The mediating role of mothers’ and children’s coping strategies.

Predictors of cognitive enhancement after training in preschoolers from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds

Parental Sensitivity Towards Toddlers and Infant Siblings Predicting Toddler Sharing and Compliance

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