Authoritative parenting and parental stress in parents of pre‐school and older children with developmental disabilities

Woolfson, Lisa; Grant, Edwina

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2214.2006.00603.x

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“…Pascoe et al [16] found that social network communication and supportiveness correlated positively with the psychical organization of the child's world, and with mothers' avoidance of punishment, nag, and restriction, which is inconsistent with the present study. Belsky [3,9] viewed the marital relationship as one of the potential sources of support in the parenting process.…”

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Determinants of Authoritative Parenting Style in Iranian Mothers

Bahrami

Dolatshahi

Pourshahbaz

et al. 2017

IRJ

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Objectives:The primary goal of this study was to identify the determinants of mother's authoritative parenting style upon the ecological model of parenting. There are some factors involved in this model such as a parent (i.e. developmental history, personality), and child characteristics (i.e. temperament and developmental issues) and environmental factors. Methods:The statistic population of this study includes mothers in Tehran having preschool children between 4-6 years old. By convenient sampling, eight kindergarten schools were selected, and mothers completed the questionnaires. The sample consisted of 157 mothers who had the authoritative parenting style based on the score of Baumrind's parenting style questionnaire. The participants completed the questionnaires and data was analyzed with regression analysis.Results: The parent's neuroticism (r=-0.253, P<0.01), social support (r=-0.200, P<0.05) and some temperamental characteristics of child i.e. excitability (r=-0.526, P<0.01) and activity (r=-0.163, P<0.05) were significant variables in prediction of authoritative parenting style.Discussion: This study enhances our understanding of the primary determinants of authoritative parenting style in Iranian mothers. The authoritative parenting style is a function of interactional mother and child characteristic and contextual components. These parents had a low score on neuroticism. Therefore, they had emotional stability and could manage their impulse and negative emotions about child maltreatment. Also, their children had low scores in excitability and a high score in sociability. Additionally, the authoritative mothers had weak social support. One explanation for this result is that mothers are the autonomy people and stand on their own rules and had little need to others.

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Determinants of Authoritative Parenting Style in Iranian Mothers

Bahrami

Dolatshahi

Pourshahbaz

et al. 2017

IRJ

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“…In addition the results of this study reiterate the role that maternal parenting stress plays in parenting styles and that high maternal stress is related to more inconsistent and punitive, and less positive parenting styles (Wolfson & Grant, 2006). Finally, these data suggest that a child's temperamental style (in particular their self regulatory skills) uniquely impacts upon their level of impairment both directly, and indirectly through increasing parenting stress.…”

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“…Wolfson and Grant (2006) found that, among mothers of children with developmental difficulties, high parenting stress was associated with a more authoritarian parenting style, suggesting that high stress as a result of their child's difficult behaviour, may impact upon the level of negative control used by parents of difficult children. Therefore, because difficult children elicit more stress and negative control, and negative parental control has been associated with adverse trajectories in disruptive preschool children (Campbell et al, 2000) it is likely that a child's ADHD symptom severity, as well as their temperament, will influence how parents interact with their child (e.g.…”

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Maternal positive parenting style is associated with better functioning in hyperactive/inattentive preschool children

Healey

Flory

Miller

et al. 2011

Inf. Child Develop.

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Many preschoolers are highly inattentive, impulsive, and hyperactive; but only some are impaired in their functioning. Yet factors leading to functional impairment, above and beyond the severity of inattentive and hyperactive symptoms, have not been systematically examined. This study examined a model suggesting that after controlling for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptom severity, child temperament is uniquely associated with parenting stress; that parenting stress affects parenting style, above and beyond child characteristics; that parenting style is related to the level of child impairment, above and beyond the effects of child symptoms, temperament, and parenting stress; and finally that parenting style moderates the relationship between ADHD symptom severity and child functioning. Child measures included parent-and teacher-rated ADHD symptom severity, teacher-rated temperament, and clinician-rated functioning in a sample of 138 inattentive/hyperactive preschoolers. Maternal self-ratings of parenting style and parenting stress were obtained. Analyses indicated that, after controlling for symptom severity, child temperament was related to maternal parenting stress, which was additionally related to both maternal parenting style and child functioning. Maternal positive parenting style moderated the relationship between ADHD symptom severity and child impairment, indicating that a positive parenting style plays a protective role in the functioning of

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“…Research has suggested that parents around the world who have a child with IDD experience significantly more stress than parents of typically developing children (Kumar 2008;Richman Belmont et al 2009;Woolfson and Grant 2005). In a sample of mothers of children with intellectual disabilities in India, 75 % reported clinically significant levels of stress (John 2012).…”

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Parenting Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Asian Indian Families in the United States

Zechella

Raval

2015

J Child Fam Stud

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Asian Indian immigrant parents of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) have unique experiences and challenges grounded within their cultural contexts and migration to United States. This study sought to describe these experiences using qualitative method. Open-ended interviews were individually conducted with 15 Asian Indian parents (8 mothers, 7 fathers) whose children were diagnosed with Down Syndrome, Autistic Disorder, or Pervasive Developmental DisorderNot Otherwise Specified. Qualitative analysis generated 16 themes that were grouped into five domains: Cultural explanations, community response, and migration; impact on the self and family; sources of stress and support; a unique parenting approach; and hopes and fears for the future. In particular, parents described their local community's initial struggles with acceptance of IDD grounded within religious explanations of the disability. Similar to parents of children with IDD from other cultural groups, these parents described family support, broader social awareness and acceptance, and access to resources as sources of support and the lack of these factors as contributing to stress. A unique parenting approach emerged in reference to the child with IDD that included adjusting academic aspirations for the child, taking a practical, ''1 day at a time'' approach, and efforts to pass on cultural heritage. Parents voiced concerns about the future care of their child when they would not be around, as well as their hopes. These findings suggest the importance of attending to cultural meanings and local contexts when understanding parenting experiences.

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Authoritative parenting and parental stress in parents of pre‐school and older children with developmental disabilities

Abstract: Findings suggest that the well-established effect of group on stress may be moderated by parenting style. Authoritative parenting may be highly stressful for parents of children with DD to implement, resulting in a decrease in its use across the two age groups.

Cited by 102 publications

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Determinants of Authoritative Parenting Style in Iranian Mothers

Determinants of Authoritative Parenting Style in Iranian Mothers

Maternal positive parenting style is associated with better functioning in hyperactive/inattentive preschool children

Parenting Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Asian Indian Families in the United States

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