Child negative emotionality and parenting from infancy to preschool: A meta-analytic review.

Paulussen-Hoogeboom, M.C.; Stams, Geert Jan; Hermanns, J.M.A.; Peetsma, Thea

doi:10.1037/0012-1649.43.2.438

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“…This study is in line with most studies of lower-to-middle-class samples showing that children who are high in negative emotionality according to their parents are harder to parent, resulting in maternal rejection and/or inadequate maternal control which may, as the present study shows, set the stage for children's anxiety/depression (Paulussen-Hoogeboom et al, 2007). An empirically supported explanation is that maternal rejection and inadequate maternal control install a sense of helplessness in children (Garber & Flynn, 2001), undermining their self-esteem (Hammen, 1992).…”

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Parenting behaviour as a mediator between young children's negative emotionality and their anxiety/depression

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Infant and Child Development

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The goal of this longitudinal study was to examine observed paternal and maternal control (psychological control and autonomy granting) and support (rejection and emotional warmth) as mediators of the relation between children's negative emotionality at 3.5 years of age and depression and anxiety problems at 4.5 years. For 35 children, 60-min unstructured parent-child interactions were rated at 4.5 years. Results indicated that maternal rejection mediated the relation between children's negative emotionality and their later anxiety/depression. Higher levels of child negative emotionality predicted more psychological control in mothers, but did not predict any parenting behaviours in fathers. Higher levels of paternal autonomy granting were associated with more child anxiety/depression. Unexpectedly, however, more maternal emotional warmth was related to higher levels of child anxiety/depression. The findings offer new insights to guide future research on the (mediating) role of parenting behaviours in the relation between children's negative emotionality and their internalizing problems. Copyright r

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Parenting behaviour as a mediator between young children's negative emotionality and their anxiety/depression

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“…Negative, inappropriate, or unskilled parenting variables appear to play a particularly important role in the development of externalizing behaviors, while warm and supportive parenting behaviors seem to act as protective factors (Bates, Petit, Dodge, & Ridge, 1998;Belsky, Hsieh, & Crnic, 1998;Rubin, Burgess, Dwyer, & Hastins, 2003;Stoolmiller, 2001). Conversely, children with temperaments high in negative emotionality elicit less supportive parenting behaviors, particularly in low-SES households (Paulussen-Hoogeboom, Stams,Hermanns, & Peetsma, 2007). Shiner and Caspi (2003) have delineated six environmental processes which work to shape the development of personality through adolescence into adulthood: learning processes, environmental elicitation, environmental construal, social and temporal comparisons, environmental selection, and environmental manipulation.…”

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Adolescent personality moderates genetic and environmental influences on relationships with parents.

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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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In contrast to early theories of socialization which emphasized the role of parents in shaping their children's personalities, recent empirical evidence suggests an evocative relationship between adolescent personality traits and the quality of the parent-adolescent relationship. Research using behavior genetic methods suggest that the association between personality and parenting is genetically mediated, such that the genetic effects on adolescent personality traits overlap with the genetic effects on parenting behavior. In the current study, we examined whether the etiology of this relationship might change depending on the adolescent's personality. Biometrical moderation models were utilized to test for gene-environment interaction and correlation between personality traits and measures of conflict, regard, and involvement with parents in a sample of 2,452 adolescents (M age=17.79). We found significant moderation of both positive and negative qualities of the parentadolescent relationship, such that the genetic and environmental variance in relationship quality varied as functions of the adolescent's levels of personality. These findings support the importance of adolescent personality in the development of the quality of the parent-adolescent relationship. Keywordspersonality; parenting; behavior genetics; moderation For many years, it was assumed that family environment, including parenting quality, played a causal role in personality development. This theory of socialization maintained that parents played the major, if not defining, role in child development (Bell, 1968). Subsequent to this, the dynamic interactionistic paradigm recognized that children were not simply the products of parental behavior (Caspi & Shiner, 2006;Magnusson, 1990; Patterson, 1982;Sameroff, 1983), but that individual differences in childhood personality also lead to variations in the quality of the parent-child relationship. Some took this position to its extreme, suggesting that parents have little if any impact on adolescent development (Harris, 1995(Harris, , 1998. A reasonable synthetic perspective is that child personality and parental behavior are related through "bidirectional interactive processes" (Collins, Maccoby, Steinberg, Heatherington, & Bornstein, 2000, p.222). In the current study, we examine whether the etiology of the parentadolescent relationship changes depending on the adolescent's personality by determining the NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript moderating impact of adolescent personality on the genetic and environmental influences on the parent-adolescent relationship. The Role of Adolescent Personality in the Parent-Adolescent RelationshipEvidence from the literature on personality development supports the notion of temperament (Rothbart & Bates, 2006), consisting of core traits (Asendorpf & Van Aken, 2003) or basic dispositions (McCrae & Costa, 1999) that are present from birth and have links to adult personality . This is not to say, however, that persona...

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“…Hoogeboom, Stams, Hermanns, & Peetsma, 2007). Still, there are several types of inductions, and there is reason to hypothesize that specific forms may be differentially related to child outcomes.…”

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Children's emotional responsiveness and sociomoral understanding and associations with mothers' and fathers' socialization practices

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2012

Infant Mental Health Journal

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Sixty-two preschoolers (55% boys) were presented hypothetical dilemmas about moral transgressions. Responses were evaluated in terms of children's emotional responsiveness, prosocial motives, and readiness to intervene. Mothers and fathers reported separately on their use of victim-oriented inductions, teaching reparations, power assertion, and love withdrawal. Four years later, parents reported on children's behavioral problems, emotion-regulation ability, and empathy. Mothers reported using more victim-oriented inductions than did fathers, and girls responded with more personal distress and reported more rule-oriented motives. Maternal love withdrawal was a positive predictor of empathy and motives of concern. For fathers, teaching reparations were positively related to children's sympathy. Interestingly, mothers' power assertion was negatively related to sympathy at high levels of fathers' power assertion, but not at low levels. Maternal power assertion during the preschool years was negatively associated with children's long-term empathy scores. School-age outcomes also were meaningfully predicted by earlier sociomoral competence.

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Child negative emotionality and parenting from infancy to preschool: A meta-analytic review.

Cited by 209 publications

References 97 publications

Parenting behaviour as a mediator between young children's negative emotionality and their anxiety/depression

Parenting behaviour as a mediator between young children's negative emotionality and their anxiety/depression

Adolescent personality moderates genetic and environmental influences on relationships with parents.

Children's emotional responsiveness and sociomoral understanding and associations with mothers' and fathers' socialization practices

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