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A New Measure Of Toddler Parenting Practices And Associations With Attachment And Mothers' Sensitivity, Competence, And Enjoyment Of Parenting, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Haley Webb, Rae Thomas, Stefanie Klag
A New Measure Of Toddler Parenting Practices And Associations With Attachment And Mothers' Sensitivity, Competence, And Enjoyment Of Parenting, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Haley Webb, Rae Thomas, Stefanie Klag
Rae Thomas
Self-determination theorists argue that parents can support or thwart their children’s psychological needs for relatedness, autonomy, and competence. The first aim of this study was to develop a measure to assess six dimensions of parenting theoretically linked to meeting toddlers’ needs. The second aim was to examine the associations of these dimensions with mothers’ sensitivity, attachment, and parenting attitudes. Participants were 61 mothers who expressed having parenting difficulties. Mothers completed questionnaires to assess their warmth, autonomy support, structure, rejection, coercion, and chaos, and self-reported their parenting competence and enjoyment. Mother–toddler interactions were observed to assess mothers’ sensitivity, and attachment was …
Maternal Emotional Distress, Abuse Risk, And Children’S Symptoms: Child Gender As A Moderator Of Parent Sensitivity As A Mediator, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Rae Thomas, Kym Hendrickson, Elbina Avdagic, Haley Webb, Leanne Mcgregor
Maternal Emotional Distress, Abuse Risk, And Children’S Symptoms: Child Gender As A Moderator Of Parent Sensitivity As A Mediator, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Rae Thomas, Kym Hendrickson, Elbina Avdagic, Haley Webb, Leanne Mcgregor
Rae Thomas
Mothers' distress is a correlate of their children's elevated behaviour problems and symptoms. Parenting practices have been shown to mediate these associations, but few studies have observed parenting or focused on parents at risk of child abuse. In this study of 269 high-risk mothers and their young children (M?=?4.2?years), structural equation modelling was used to test associations between mothers' distress and child externalizing and internalizing symptoms. Associations were expected to be partly indirect via mothers' observed low sensitivity, and child gender was expected to moderate associations. Also, mothers' child abuse risk was examined as a unique correlate of sensitivity and …
Behavioral Outcomes Of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy And Triple P – Positive Parenting Program: A Review And Meta-Analysis, Rae Thomas, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck
Behavioral Outcomes Of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy And Triple P – Positive Parenting Program: A Review And Meta-Analysis, Rae Thomas, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck
Rae Thomas
We conducted a review and meta-analyses of 24 studies to evaluate and compare the outcomes of two widely disseminated parenting interventions—Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and Triple P-Positive Parenting Program. Participants in all studies were caregivers and 3- to 12-year-old children. In general, our analyses revealed positive effects of both interventions, but effects varied depending on intervention length, components, and source of outcome data. Both interventions reduced parent-reported child behavior and parenting problems. The effect sizes for PCIT were large when outcomes of child and parent behaviors were assessed with parent-report, with the exclusion of Abbreviated PCIT, which had moderate effect sizes. …