Socialization of coping in a predominantly female sample of caregivers: Contributions to children’s social adjustment in middle childhood.

Abaied, Jamie L.; Stanger, Sarah B.

doi:10.1037/fam0000342

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“…First, by this age, children have developed an abstract understanding of the concept of race (Hughes, Bigler, & Levy, 2007). Second, prior work has revealed that children in middle childhood are capable of engaging in rich discussions with their parents regarding challenging issues, such as how they cope with stress (Abaied & Stanger, 2017), which suggests that parents and children have the capacity for potentially engaging in challenging discussions about race. Finally, by this age we reasoned that most parents would have had opportunities to discuss race and racism with their child.…”

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Bias awareness predicts color conscious racial socialization methods among White parents

Perry¹,

Skinner-Dorkenoo²,

Abaied³

2019

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The majority of White parents in the United States are uncomfortable discussing race with their children and tend to avoid it. When they do discuss race with their children, they often take a color blind approach-in which they emphasize a belief that race does not matter-instead of a color conscious approachin which they acknowledge race-related issues. In the current study, we sought to explore the individual difference factors that may be associated with White American parents' racial socialization practices. Results indicated that parents' racial bias awareness was associated with greater willingness to discuss race with their children, increased color consciousness, and decreased color blindness; when statistically controlling for their racial attitudes, motivations to respond without prejudice, and interracial contact. The potential impacts of bias awareness interventions on White parents' racial socialization behaviors are discussed.Despite their tendency to endorse egalitarianism (Dovidio, 2009;

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Section: The Current Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

Bias awareness predicts color conscious racial socialization methods among White parents

Perry¹,

Skinner-Dorkenoo²,

Abaied³

2019

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“…Although few studies to date have examined the link between parent SOC and child outcomes, some knowledge is beginning to emerge. For example, two longitudinal investigations have documented that parental engagement coping suggestions were predictive of youth's adaptive stress responses (Abaied & Rudolph, 2011) and social adjustment (Abaied & Stanger, 2017). Similarly, Gaylord‐Harden, Elmore, and Montes de Oca (2013) reported that, in a sample of African American children, maternal socialization of engagement coping was significantly associated with children's use of engagement coping strategies.…”

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confidence: 99%

Parent Socialization of Coping and Child Emotion Regulation Abilities: A Longitudinal Examination

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This study examined the hypothesis that parent socialization of coping (SOC) would have a longitudinal relation with child emotion regulation abilities. Participants included a sample of 256 parents of 5-to 12-year-old children (child M age = 8.36, SD = 2.03, 54.7% male; parent M age = 34.49, SD = 6.20, 59% female). Data on demographic information, parenting behaviors, and child emotion regulation abilities were collected via online questionnaires at baseline and 12 months. Results from longitudinal structural equation modeling (SEM) analyses suggested that parent SOC, measured at baseline, predicted child adaptive and maladaptive emotion regulation, measured 12 months later. More specifically, parental engagement coping suggestions predicted child's adaptive emotion regulation, whereas parental disengagement coping suggestions predicted child's maladaptive emotion regulation. Further, child gender emerged as a moderator in the longitudinal association between socialization of engagement coping and child adaptive emotion regulation: Whereas this association was small and marginally significant for girls, it was large and statistically significant for boys. Results highlight the importance of parent SOC as potentially contributing to emotion regulation abilities of 5-to 12-year-olds.

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“…Parenting styles and behaviors also remain relatively stable and influence how children communicate with others and navigate social situations (5,6). In the transition from early childhood to middle childhood, children become more independent and interact with others more frequently in a variety of social contexts (7,8). Further, child characteristics such as temperament and emotion regulation can shape patterns of parental responsivity (9)(10)(11)(12).…”

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Explicating Child-Driven Patterns of Parent-Child Responsivity in Fragile Families: A Longitudinal Approach

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It has been well-established that development occurs in the context of a transactional framework, with bidirectional parent-child interactions influencing both proximal and distal outcomes. In particular, child vocabulary development is sensitive to parenting qualities including warmth, sensitivity, and control as well as parental stimulation including language input and access to learning enrichment activities. Similarly, these parenting qualities are influenced by and influence children's development of pro-social behaviors. Given the foundational role of both language and pro-social skills for academic achievement and the establishment of healthy relationships across the lifespan, a comprehensive understanding of the magnitude, stability, and reciprocity of such interactions across childhood has the potential to better inform early intervention and prevention practices and highlight risk and resilience factors. This study investigated the concurrent and successive transactional relationships between child pro-social behavior, child emergent language, and parenting qualities within a large, longitudinal sample. This study utilized Waves 3, 4, and 5 of the Fragile Families and Child Well Being Study (FFCWBS), corresponding to focal child age 3, 5, and 9 years, respectively. A series of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with full-information likelihood (FIML) estimation (n = 3,422) including child prosocial behavior, receptive vocabulary, and supportive parenting behaviors was tested and compared. Our findings indicate significant, positive associations over time between child pro-social behavior and receptive vocabulary, and parenting quality across all three stages of early child development. The steady decline in magnitude of these associations over time highlights the importance of synergistic parent-child interactions in toddlerhood as an early opportunity to propel these developmental outcomes and supportive parenting behaviors. Patterns of change in child pro-social behavior skills and parenting qualities remained positive and relatively stable, while observed growth in child receptive vocabulary skills increased in magnitude over time. Additional investigation of indirect effects specified the role of receptive vocabulary, as well as the bolstering role of prosocial behavior, in eliciting responsive parenting qualities over time.

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Socialization of coping in a predominantly female sample of caregivers: Contributions to children’s social adjustment in middle childhood.

Cited by 17 publications

References 30 publications

Bias awareness predicts color conscious racial socialization methods among White parents

Bias awareness predicts color conscious racial socialization methods among White parents

Parent Socialization of Coping and Child Emotion Regulation Abilities: A Longitudinal Examination

Explicating Child-Driven Patterns of Parent-Child Responsivity in Fragile Families: A Longitudinal Approach

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