Predictors of parenting attitudes in an at-risk sample: Results from the LONGSCAN study

Wamser‐Nanney, Rachel; Campbell, Claudia L.

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104282

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“…The current findings indicate that childhood abuse did not influence how maternal caregivers viewed their relationships with their adolescents, suggesting that the influence of child abuse may be out of conscious awareness. Maternal caregivers with abuse histories have been previously suggested to reported greater empathy, appropriate expectations, and the of use appropriate discipline methods (Wamser‐Nanney & Campbell, 2020); however, maternal caregivers may compare their current parenting behavior with what they experienced in childhood. They may believe they are using appropriate parenting strategies, but those same strategies could be harmful to the relationship such as lack of acceptance and greater psychological control (Zalewski et al, 2013).…”

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“…Two recent studies using data from the Longitudinal Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN; Runyan et al, 1998) highlight more positive outcomes. Fitzgerald et al (2020) found that lifetime maternal trauma was not associated with harsh parenting behaviors and Wamser‐Nanney and Campbell (2020) found that mothers abused in childhood reported more positive parenting attitudes. The relationship between maternal childhood abuse and offspring mental health problems may not be simply a result of harsh or abusive parenting, but rather be a consequence of a lower quality parent–child relationship characterized by a lack of trust, understanding, communication, and closeness while having greater levels of alienation, lack of involvement, and more frequent conflict (Claridge et al, 2015; Ebbert et al, 2018).…”

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Dyadic parent–adolescent relationship quality as pathways from maternal childhood abuse to adolescent psychopathology

Fitzgerald

Esplin

Wright

et al. 2021

J Marital Family Therapy

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Children of maternal caregivers abused in childhood are at increased risk for mental health problems including anxiety and depression. To date, most studies exploring the intergenerational transmission of trauma have focused on younger children, with far fewer studies investigating adolescent mental health. Previous research suggests that maternal childhood abuse negatively impacts the parent-adolescent relationship, which may contribute to the development and maintenance of adolescent mental health problems. The current study examined dyadic reports of maternal-adolescent relationship quality as mediators linking maternal reports of childhood abuse to adolescent depression and anxiety. The bootstrapped indirect effects from maternal childhood abuse to adolescent symptoms of anxiety and depression were significant through adolescent reports of relationship quality, but not through maternal reports of relationship quality. Findings suggest that an adolescent's perception of their maternal-adolescent relationship may mediate the relationship between their maternal caregiver's childhood abuse and their own symptoms of anxiety and depression.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Dyadic parent–adolescent relationship quality as pathways from maternal childhood abuse to adolescent psychopathology

Fitzgerald

Esplin

Wright

et al. 2021

J Marital Family Therapy

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“…Despite previous theoretical frameworks describing determinants of parenting attitude and how it corresponds to behaviour (Abidin, 1992; Meyers & Battistoni, 2003), empirical studies about parenting attitudes and beliefs in shaping how parents perceive and respond to their children are scarce (Wamser‐Nanney & Campbell, 2020). In addition, parental beliefs about disciplinary methods (DMs) and the use of them reflect in general a complex interplay between multiple factors as discussed below, including their own experience with a particular DM that may impact what they believe to be a successful one.…”

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confidence: 99%

Qatari mothers’ beliefs in child disciplinary methods and their reported use: A cross‐sectional study

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Violent child discipline is a widespread phenomenon that can have devastating short‐ and long‐term consequences for an individual's physical, mental and social wellbeing. Parents' beliefs and expressed ideas about child discipline, both violent and non‐violent, can differ from their practice. This study identifies which disciplinary methods Qatari mothers believe to be the most successful in changing their child's behaviour and compares them to the ones they report actually using. Using a cross‐sectional design, a representative sample of Qatari mothers completed an anonymous standardised questionnaire, the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Child Abuse Screening Tool for Parents. The majority (96.9 per cent) of Qatari mothers reported believing in non‐violent disciplinary methods (NVDMs) in changing their child's behaviour and those believing only in such methods are more likely to use only them compared to those mothers believing in a mixture of methods (30.9 vs. 6.7 per cent, chi‐squared value [𝜒2] = 83.5, P value <0.001). Still, 44.9 and 5.2 per cent of Qatari mothers believing in only NVDMs also used at least one moderate and one severe physical method, respectively. Much public education is needed to increase Qatari mothers' awareness in of the benefits of NVDMs, to foster a belief in their efficacy and to support using them.

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“…Moreover, DDAA differs from the Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) and the Conduct Disorder (CD) in that these disturbances are principally centered on behavior, while DDAA encompasses both emotional and behavioral dysregulation (Mulrooney et al, 2019). Emotional and behavioral regulation systems are influenced both by individual and environmental factors: among individual factors, temperament plays a crucial role, while among environmental factors, attachment styles and mentalization processes play a fundamental role (Gallegos et al, 2019;Rostad & Whitaker, 2016;Slagt et al, 2016;Wamser-Nanney & Campbell, 2020).…”

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DDAA and Maternal Reflective Functions

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In this study, we propose to examine two types of Parent Training (PT) under DDAA —behavioral and reflective types of PT. The central idea of our work is that the development of parenting educational skills cannot ignore the development of reflective and regulatory functions, which promote pre-mentalization, social cognition, and empathic skills. Because of the lack of studies on the efficacy of behavioral PT addressed to the parents of subjects with DDAA, this work took place. This study included 90 families whose children were diagnosed with the disorder of dysregulated anger and aggression (DDAA) according to criteria of CD 0–5 (2016). The sample included pre-school children aged between 2 and 3 years old (age range 2–3 years), who were equally divided into two groups based on the type of PT administered to the parents or caregivers. Our results indicate that the PT intervention, which is focused on the improvement of parental reflexive functions, helps in obtaining greater results even in the reduction of the externalizing behavioral symptoms. Additionally, results show that the intervention of PT with a behavioral matrix does not improve parental reflexive functions even if it guarantees a slight reduction of children’s behavioral problems.

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Predictors of parenting attitudes in an at-risk sample: Results from the LONGSCAN study

Cited by 14 publications

References 64 publications

Dyadic parent–adolescent relationship quality as pathways from maternal childhood abuse to adolescent psychopathology

Dyadic parent–adolescent relationship quality as pathways from maternal childhood abuse to adolescent psychopathology

Qatari mothers’ beliefs in child disciplinary methods and their reported use: A cross‐sectional study

DDAA and Maternal Reflective Functions

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