Infant Temperament, Maternal Personality, and Parenting Stress as Contributors to Infant Developmental Outcomes

Molfese, Victoria J.; Rudasill, Kathleen Moritz; Beswick, Jennifer; Jacobi-Vessels, Jill; Ferguson, Melissa; White, Jamie M.

doi:10.1353/mpq.0.0039

Cited by 51 publications

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“…Although maternal overprotection may have been protective in parents with low difficult child scores (i.e., greater non-hostility observed in parenting behaviours), it is possible that maternal overprotection loses that effectiveness in parents who find their children difficult to manage in the first place. For example, children with difficult temperaments have been shown to covary with greater maternal intrusiveness [78], lower maternal sensitivity [79] and greater parenting stress [80]. When parental coping resources are overwhelmed in this way, parents then rely on prior experiences (i.e., parenting practices received when younger).…”

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Parents’ Past Bonding Experience with Their Parents Interacts with Current Parenting Stress to Influence the Quality of Interaction with Their Child

Azhari

Wong

Lim

et al. 2020

Behavioral Sciences

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Healthy dyadic interactions serve as a foundation for child development and are typically characterised by mutual emotional availability of both the parent and child. However, several parental factors might undermine optimal parent–child interactions, including the parent’s current parenting stress levels and the parent’s past bonding experiences with his/her own parents. To date, no study has investigated the possible interaction of parenting stress and parental bonding history with their own parents on the quality of emotional availability during play interactions. In this study, 29 father–child dyads (18 boys, 11 girls; father’s age = 38.07 years, child’s age = 42.21 months) and 36 mother–child dyads (21 boys, 15 girls; mother’s age = 34.75 years, child’s age = 41.72 months) from different families were recruited to participate in a 10-min play session after reporting on their current parenting stress and past care and overprotection experience with their parents. We measured the emotional availability of mother–child and father–child play across four adult subscales (i.e., sensitivity, structuring, non-intrusiveness, non-hostility) and two child subscales (i.e., involvement and responsiveness). Regression slope analyses showed that parenting stress stemming from having a difficult child predicts adult non-hostility, and is moderated by the parents’ previously experienced maternal overprotection. When parenting stress is low, higher maternal overprotection experienced by the parent in the past would predict greater non-hostility during play. This finding suggests that parents’ present stress levels and past bonding experiences with their parents interact to influence the quality of dyadic interaction with their child.

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confidence: 99%

Parents’ Past Bonding Experience with Their Parents Interacts with Current Parenting Stress to Influence the Quality of Interaction with Their Child

Azhari

Wong

Lim

et al. 2020

Behavioral Sciences

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“…For example, mothers parenting stress scores were positively associated with intrusiveness, punitiveness and insensitivity, and negatively associated with responsiveness and cognitive stimulation (Kang, 2006;Whiteside-Mansell et al, 2007). Further, parent-child interactions are more often disrupted by influences external to the interaction when parenting stress levels are high compared with low (Blankenhorn, 1995;Crnic, Greenberg, Ragozin, Robinson, & Basham, 1983;Hetherington & Stanley-Hagan, 1997;McCarty, Zimmerman, Digiuseppe, & Christakis, 2005;Molfese et al, 2010;Whipple & Webster-Stratton, 1991), reducing opportunities for effective linguistic and cognitive stimulation (Nievar & Luster, 2006). Farver and colleagues found that mothers' higher levels of parenting stress predicted significantly lower language scores and poorer social functioning in their children (Farver, Xu, Eppe, & Lonigan, 2006); these authors suggest that parenting stress dampens parents' abilities to provide a supportive environment for children's developing school readiness skills.…”

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More than Just the Breadwinner: The Effects of Fathers' Parenting Stress on Children's Language and Cognitive Development

2016

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Despite numerous studies on parenting stress suggesting negative influences on parent-child interactions and children's development, the majority of these studies focus on mothers' parenting stress with little or no acknowledgement of fathers. Using data from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project, this study examined (i) the effects of fathers' parenting stress during toddlerhood on children's language and cognitive outcomes when children are 3 years old (ii) whether the effects of fathers' parenting stress on children's language and cognitive development vary by child gender? Results from mixed linear models showed fathers' parenting stress predicted children's lower cognitive scores, but there were no gender differences in the effects of fathers' parenting stress on children's cognitive outcomes. In the language domain, boys, not girls, were found to be more susceptible to the effects of fathers' parenting stress. These findings indicated that fathers, in addition to mothers, should be included in early parenting research and interventions.

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“…For example, more parenting stress at 6 months has a negative effect on child cognitive development (e.g. perception, problem solving, language) at 12 months (Molfese et al 2010). Moreover, in a cross-sectional study parenting stress has also been negatively linked to child executive functioning at 8–12 years (Joyner et al 2009).…”

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Longitudinal Associations Between Parental Bonding, Parenting Stress, and Executive Functioning in Toddlerhood

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Early executive functioning is an important predictor for future development of children’s cognitive skills and behavioral outcomes. Parenting behavior has proven to be a key environmental determinant of child executive functioning. However, the association of parental affect and cognitions directed to the child with child executive functioning has been understudied. Therefore, in the present study we examine the associations between parental bonding (i.e., the affective tie from parent to child), parenting stress, and child executive functioning. At 26 weeks of pregnancy, and at 6 months and 24 months postpartum the quality of the maternal (N = 335) and paternal (N = 261) bond with the infant was assessed. At 24 months, postnatal parenting stress and child executive functioning were measured by means of parent-report questionnaires. Results indicated that for both mothers and fathers feelings of bonding negatively predicted experienced parenting stress over time. In addition, for both parents a negative indirect effect of bonding on child executive functioning problems was found via experienced parenting stress. These findings indicate the importance of monitoring parents who experience a low level and quality of early parent-child bonding, as this makes them vulnerable to parenting stress, consequently putting their children at risk for developing executive functioning problems.

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Infant Temperament, Maternal Personality, and Parenting Stress as Contributors to Infant Developmental Outcomes

Cited by 51 publications

References 69 publications

Parents’ Past Bonding Experience with Their Parents Interacts with Current Parenting Stress to Influence the Quality of Interaction with Their Child

Parents’ Past Bonding Experience with Their Parents Interacts with Current Parenting Stress to Influence the Quality of Interaction with Their Child

More than Just the Breadwinner: The Effects of Fathers' Parenting Stress on Children's Language and Cognitive Development

Longitudinal Associations Between Parental Bonding, Parenting Stress, and Executive Functioning in Toddlerhood

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