Personal and couple level risk factors: Maternal and paternal parent-child aggression risk

Tucker, Meagan C.; Rodriguez, Christina M.; Baker, Levi R.

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.04.030

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“…As hypothesized, increases in PCA approval, negative child behavior attributions, and psychopathology symptoms, as well as decreases in problem focused coping, emotion regulation ability, and partner satisfaction, each significantly predicted changes in PCA risk over time for both mothers and fathers. These findings are consistent with previous research demonstrating links between increased child abuse potential with these SIP parenting-relevant factors (PCA approval: McCarthy et al 2016; Rodriguez et al, 2011; negative child attributions: Azar et al, 2013; Montes et al, 2001), personal taxes like mental health problems (Pajer et al, 2014; Stith et al, 2009), and personal resources like problem-focused coping (Cantos et al, 1997; Lowell & Renk, 2017; Rodriguez, 2010b), better emotion regulation abilities (Hiraoka et al, 2016; Lowell & Renk, 2017; Rodriguez et al, 2017), and higher partner satisfaction (Florsheim et al, 2003; Rodriguez et al, 2016b, 2017; Tucker et al, 2017). Many of these risk factors may develop from childhood experiences that influence adults’ parenting beliefs (e.g., Dixon, Hamilton-Giachritsis, & Browne, 2005a), mental health (e.g., Dixon, Hamilton-Giachritsis, & Browne, 2005b), and resources (e.g., Herrenkohl, Klika, Brown, Herrenkohl, & Leeb, 2013); however, whether these risk factors influence the pathways between a personal history of PCA and later PCA risk are not consistently observed (Rodriguez, Silvia, Gonzalez, & Christl, 2018).…”

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“…Further, parents may access external resources, drawing from their overall social support system to reduce PCA risk (Counts et al, 2010; Tucker & Rodriguez, 2014), which has been particularly observed among mothers (Schaeffer, Alexander, Bethke, & Kretz, 2005). Other interpersonal resources may derive from satisfaction with their partner (Bryson, 2004; Florsheim et al, 2003; Rodriguez et al, 2016b, 2017; Tucker, Rodriguez, & Baker, 2017), which has been demonstrated to lead to reduced PCA risk.…”

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Predictors of change in mothers’ and fathers’ parent-child aggression risk

Rodriguez

Silvia

2018

Child Abuse & Neglect

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Parents’ cognitive schemas about parenting, personal vulnerabilities, and personal resources may affect their risk of engaging in parent-child aggression (PCA). This longitudinal study examined predictors of change in mothers’ and fathers’ PCA risk across the transition to parenthood, comparing trajectories of parents evidencing high versus low sociodemographic risk. Potential predictors involved parenting-relevant schemas (consistent with Social Information Processing theory, including approval of PCA, negative attributions of child behavior, and knowledge of nonphysical discipline options), personal vulnerabilities (psychopathology, intimate partner violence, substance use issues), and resources (problem-focused coping, emotion regulation, social support, and partner satisfaction). Results indicated that increases in PCA approval, negative child behavior attributions, and symptoms of psychopathology, as well as decreases in problem-focused coping skills, emotion regulation ability, and partner satisfaction, all significantly predicted changes in mothers’ and fathers’ PCA risk over time—regardless of risk group status. Notably, increases in intimate partner violence victimization and decreases in social support satisfaction predicted mothers’ but not fathers’ PCA risk change; moreover, increases in knowledge of nonphysical discipline alternatives or in substance use issues did not predict change in PCA risk for either mothers or fathers. Risk groups differed in PCA risk across all predictors with minimal evidence of differential trajectories. Overall, these findings have important implications for child abuse prevention programs involving both universal and secondary abuse prevention efforts.

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Predictors of change in mothers’ and fathers’ parent-child aggression risk

Rodriguez

Silvia

2018

Child Abuse & Neglect

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“…Moreover, mothers and fathers who generated proportionally more physical discipline options were more inclined to prefer an authoritarian parenting approach and to want to punish perceived misbehavior-both of which have previously been linked to physical child abuse risk (Haskett et al, 1995(Haskett et al, , 2006Rodriguez, 2010Rodriguez, , 2016. Likewise, parents with higher PDA Physical Proportion scores assessed prenatally were more likely to later report using physical discipline tactics, similar to prior work that has observed associations between use of physical discipline tactics and child abuse potential (Chan, 2012;Rodriguez, 2010;Tucker et al, 2017). The ability to identify parents' discipline preferences early would be ideal for child abuse prevention programs that often target perinatal samples (e.g., Chartier et al, 2017;Eckenrode et al, 2017).…”

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Psychometric Evaluation of a Brief Assessment of Parents’ Disciplinary Alternatives

Rodriguez

Wittig

2019

J Child Fam Stud

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Objectives: The majority of strategies designed to assess parental discipline practices typically focus on ineffective or adverse discipline options. When more comprehensive measures are utilized, parents are often expressly asked to report their use of nonphysical discipline options but such an approach signals to parents that they should report implementing such choices, thereby rendering it susceptible to social desirability. Methods: Rather than cueing parents with possible discipline options, the Production of Discipline Alternatives (PDA) is a very brief parent-report coding scheme of the discipline options parents freely generate to an open-ended question after reading a short vignette. The current study investigated the inter-rater reliability and stability as well as concurrent and predictive validity from the coding of this brief qualitative prompt using three waves of longitudinal data collected from mothers and fathers (prenatally, child age 6 months, and child age 18 months). Results: Findings demonstrated strong inter-rater reliability (between independent coders) and stability of discipline alternatives provided by parents across nearly two years. Concurrent and predictive validity were also observed; specifically, mothers and fathers who generated proportionally more physical discipline options were more likely to approve of physical discipline, to be inclined to punish perceived misbehavior, to prefer authoritarian parenting approaches, to evidence greater child abuse risk, and to report more frequent use of physical discipline. Conclusions: The current findings imply the PDA may have research utility as well as potential value in screenings at primary and integrated care settings relevant for prevention and intervention efforts.

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“…In addition to the immediate possibility of more parents being unable to meet their children's physical needs thus increasing the risk for child neglect, financial concerns tend to erode parents' mental health functioning (McConnell et al, 2011). Parents reporting elevated distress are at higher risk to engage in physical neglect (Lee, 2013;Slack et al, 2011;Stith et al, 2009) as well as maternal and paternal physical abuse (Kim et al, 2014;Lee et al, 2011;Miragoli et al, 2018;Schaeffer et al, 2005;Tucker et al, 2017). Initial reports further suggest that depression rose in the days immediately following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic (Wang et al, 2020).…”

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Parental Social Isolation and Child Maltreatment Risk During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Background: On March 11, 2020, COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. The social isolation and economic stress resulting from pandemic have the potential to exacerbate child abuse and neglect. Objective: This study examines the association of parents’ perceived social isolation and recent employment loss to risk for child maltreatment (neglect, verbal aggression, and physical punishment) in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants and Setting: Participants (N = 283) were adults living in the U.S. who were parents of at least one child 0-12 years of age. Methods: Participants completed an online survey approximately 2 weeks after the World Health Organization declared that COVID-19 was a pandemic. The survey asked about recent changes (i.e., in the past 2 weeks) to employment status, parenting behaviors, use of discipline, use of spanking, and depressive symptoms. Results: Parents’ perceived social isolation and recent employment loss were associated with self-report of physical and emotional neglect and verbal aggression against the child, even after statistically controlling for parental depressive symptoms, income, and sociodemographic factors. Parents’ perceived social isolation was associated with parental report of changes in discipline, specifically, using discipline and spanking more often in the past 2 weeks. Associations were robust to analyses that included two variables that assessed days spent social distancing and days spent in “lockdown.” Conclusions: Study results point to the need for mental health supports to parents and children to ameliorate the strain created by COVID-19.

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Personal and couple level risk factors: Maternal and paternal parent-child aggression risk

Cited by 24 publications

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Predictors of change in mothers’ and fathers’ parent-child aggression risk

Predictors of change in mothers’ and fathers’ parent-child aggression risk

Psychometric Evaluation of a Brief Assessment of Parents’ Disciplinary Alternatives

Parental Social Isolation and Child Maltreatment Risk During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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