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Analysis Of Mothers’ Parenting Consistency: Associations With Children’S Adjustment, David R L Brabham
Analysis Of Mothers’ Parenting Consistency: Associations With Children’S Adjustment, David R L Brabham
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
While robust literature exists on the association between positive and negative parenting with child outcomes, less is known about the nature of parenting’s consistency in this relationship. This study sought to examine the relationship between valence and consistency of parenting, and to determine whether consistency is associated with child adjustment independent of valence. Data were collected from 167 mothers and their toddler-aged child. Participation involved two time points, 1 year apart. At each time point, mothers’ observational data were obtained via videotape of designed interactions between mother and toddler, as well as survey data from mothers. Bivariate correlations and multiple …
Families In Poverty: Additive And Qualitative Influence Of Risk On Parenting, Lauren Aaron
Families In Poverty: Additive And Qualitative Influence Of Risk On Parenting, Lauren Aaron
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Co-occurrence of risk for impoverished families is common, but less is known about how compounded risk influences parenting behavior. Mothers (n = 167) and their two-year-old children were visited at home and engaged in a game aimed to elicit everyday parenting behavior. Mothers endorsed experience of sociodemographic and psychosocial risks. Two unique cumulative risk indices were created from these variables. Regression analyses assessed the relation between the risk indices and positive and negative parenting behavior. Latent class analysis examines classes of risk experience on the same indicators. Results show psychosocial risk experience is associated with both parenting factors, while …