Maternal Anxiety, Parenting Stress, and Preschoolers' Behavior Problems: The Role of Child Self-Regulation

Tsotsi, Stella; Broekman, Birit F. P.; Sim, Lit Wee; Tan, Kok Hian; Chong, Yap Seng; Qiu, Anqi; Chen, Helen Yu; Meaney, Michael J.; Rifkin‐Graboi, Anne

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“…Greater prenatal anxiety was associated with greater postpartum parenting stress, as anticipated, although it did not necessarily portend lower parenting satisfaction. Anxious individuals tend to experience a greater threat than is necessary for the situation, perceiving various aspects of parenting or caring for their child as threatening or potentially more dangerous than is warranted (Tsotsi et al, 2019). Thus, it makes sense that more anxious expectant fathers might experience parenting as particularly stressful relative to less anxious fathers.…”

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The Best and Worst of Times: Predictors of New Fathers’ Parenting Satisfaction and Stress

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This study examined predictors of new fathers' parenting satisfaction and stress using data from 182 fathers in dual-earner couples who were followed across their transition to parenthood. Expectant fathers completed surveys about their personal characteristics (anxiety, belief in maternal essentialism, parenting self-efficacy expectations) and family relationships (confidence in the couple relationship) during the third trimester of pregnancy. At 3 months postpartum, fathers completed surveys about their family relationships (maternal gatekeeping) and child characteristics (infant negative emotionality, infant gender), as well as their parenting satisfaction and stress. Results of regression analyses indicated that expectant fathers with greater parenting selfefficacy expectations reported less parenting stress and greater satisfaction at 3 months postpartum. More anxious expectant fathers were at risk of experiencing elevated levels of parenting stress postpartum, as were fathers with lower endorsement of maternal essentialism and infants highly negative in mood. Fathers were more satisfied in their roles as parents when mothers engaged in greater gate-opening behavior, particularly when those fathers expressed less confidence in their couple relationships prior to their child's birth. Results indicate the importance of screening expectant and new fathers for anxiety, strengthening expectant fathers' parenting self-efficacy, and encouraging greater maternal support for engaged fathering.

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The Best and Worst of Times: Predictors of New Fathers’ Parenting Satisfaction and Stress

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“…In addition to the amount of social support, the economic status of the mothers might also be related to maternal parenting stress. The SES was by most studies measured via education and/or income separately [11,13,35,36,39,[54][55][56]. Together, these studies suggested evidence for an association between having a higher maternal educational level and lower parenting stress; and inconsistent evidence for an association between income and maternal parenting stress.…”

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Parent, child, and situational factors associated with parenting stress: a systematic review

Fang

Luo

Boele

et al. 2022

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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Parenting stress has been related to adverse health outcomes in parents, children, and their families. This systematic review aimed to provide an overview of parental, child, and situational factors related to parenting stress in mothers and fathers. We searched Embase, Medline Epub (Ovid), PsychInfo (Ovid), Web of Science, and Google scholar for studies published between January 1980 and May 2021 evaluating the association between at least one factor and parenting stress. Studies were included only if they reported the association in a general population sample of mothers and fathers with children aged 0–12 years. The parent–child relationship model by Abidin guided the data synthesis. Quality of the evidence was assessed using the Standard Quality Assessment Criteria for Evaluating Primary Research Papers from a variety of fields. In total, 29 studies were included with excellent quality (55%), good (31%), and adequate (14%) methodological quality. There was evidence of an association between maternal depression, child overall problems, child externalizing and internalizing problems, social support, maternal educational level and maternal parenting stress. Evidence was inconsistent for an association between maternal anxiety, family income and maternal parenting stress. There was no evidence of an association for maternal age, child sex and maternal parenting stress. Several modifiable factors (i.e., parental depression and social support) were identified that might guide the development of preventive interventions. Future research should employ longitudinal study designs evaluating protective and risk factors and the pathways that lead to parenting stress, among both fathers and mothers.

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“…The procedures used in this task have been previously reported 60 . Briefly, we used SE and NSE counterbalanced versions of an inhibitory control task.…”

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Caregiving adversity during infancy and preschool cognitive function: adaptations to context?

Rifkin‐Graboi¹,

Goh²,

Chong

et al. 2021

J Dev Orig Health Dis

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From a conditional adaptation vantage point, early life caregiving adversity likely enhances aspects of cognition needed to manage interpersonal threats. Yet, research examining early life care and offspring cognition predominantly relies upon experiments including affectively neutral stimuli, with findings generally interpreted as “early-life caregiving adversity is, de facto, ‘bad’ for cognitive performance.” Here, in a Southeast Asian sample, we examined observed maternal sensitivity in infancy and cognitive performance 3 years later as preschoolers took part in three tasks, each involving both a socioemotional (SE) and non-socioemotional (NSE) version: relational memory (n = 236), cognitive flexibility (n = 203), and inhibitory control (n = 255). Results indicate the relation between early life caregiving adversity and memory performance significantly differs (Wald test = 7.67, (1), P = 0.006) depending on the SE versus NSE context, with maternal sensitivity in infancy highly predictive of worse memory for SE stimuli, and amongst girls, also predictive of better memory when NSE stimuli are used. Results concerning inhibitory control, as well as cognitive flexibility in girls, also tentatively suggest the importance of considering the SE nature of stimuli when assessing relations between the caregiving environment and cognitive performance. As not all approaches to missing data yielded similar results, implications for statistical approaches are elaborated. We conclude by considering how an adaptation-to-context framework approach may aid in designing pedagogical strategies and well-being interventions that harness pre-existing cognitive strengths.

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Maternal Anxiety, Parenting Stress, and Preschoolers' Behavior Problems: The Role of Child Self-Regulation

Cited by 31 publications

References 30 publications

The Best and Worst of Times: Predictors of New Fathers’ Parenting Satisfaction and Stress

The Best and Worst of Times: Predictors of New Fathers’ Parenting Satisfaction and Stress

Parent, child, and situational factors associated with parenting stress: a systematic review

Caregiving adversity during infancy and preschool cognitive function: adaptations to context?

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