Mediators between Parenting History and Expected At-Risk Parenting: Role of Conformity, Coping, and Attitudes

Boppana, Shilpa; Rodriguez, Christina M.

doi:10.1007/s10826-017-0812-7

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“…Those holding a social dominance orientation favor in-group members relative to out-group members (Sidanius, Pratto, & Mitchell, 1994), and for White individuals, this corresponds to a belief that their in-group (Whites) experiences disenfranchisement and discrimination (Jardina, 2019) despite the systemic racism experienced by Black individuals. Such a hierarchical social dominance orientation is also related to individuals' stronger approval for PCA (Hess, Gray, & Nunez, 2012), and a need to enforce conformity from children is reflected in a propensity toward authoritarianism (Boppana & Rodriguez, 2017;Feldman, 2003) which could be manifest as a justification to ensure obedience. In light of these provocative findings with White mothers, additional, more intensive research inquiry into racial group differences on the role of perceived discrimination in relation to PCA and abuse risk is needed, particularly because our findings on discrimination derive from data gathered anonymously from only the second group of mothers involved in the current investigation.…”

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Underlying mechanisms for racial disparities in parent-child physical and psychological aggression and child abuse risk

Rodriguez

Lee

Ward

2021

Child Abuse & Neglect

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Background: Understanding factors that contribute to parents' use of physical and psychological parent-child aggression (PCA) is critical in efforts to mitigate child maltreatment. Objective: Extant research has not adequately distinguished risk factors that may differ by race. Participants and methods: The present study investigated potential racial differences in worry, approval of PCA, justification for PCA use, negative child intent attributions, and discrimination experiences in relation to child abuse risk and physical and psychological PCA use in a sample of 292 Black (44.9 %) and White mothers. Results: As hypothesized, compared to White mothers, Black mothers demonstrated higher child abuse risk and reported more PCA use, stronger approval for using PCA, and more justification of their PCA to teach children obedience. Although Black mothers reported more discipline-relevant worry as well as more experience of discrimination, White mothers' lower trait worry related to their greater approval of PCA for discipline, which indirectly related to their abuse risk. Contrary to expectations, perceptions of greater discrimination were related to White mothers' increased child abuse risk, approval of PCA, and justification for PCA because of anger and to teach obedience-findings not observed for Black mothers. Conclusions: The current results underscore the need for additional research on the role of discrimination and the cultural context of parenting and highlight the importance of explicitly testing racial differences to develop more culturally informed abuse prevention approaches.

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Underlying mechanisms for racial disparities in parent-child physical and psychological aggression and child abuse risk

Rodriguez

Lee

Ward

2021

Child Abuse & Neglect

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“…Parenting styles. At each wave, parents' expected parenting style was assessed by self-report of how they will parent their child via a modified Parental Authority Questionnaire, the Future Parental Authority Questionnaire (Boppana & Rodriguez, 2017). Parents rated 30 items using a 5-point Likert scale (1 ϭ "strongly disagree" to 5 ϭ "strongly agree"), with subscales summed to create Authoritative, Authoritarian, and Permissive parenting style scores.…”

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Emerging behavior problems: Bidirectional relations between maternal and paternal parenting styles with infant temperament.

Wittig¹,

Rodriguez²

2019

Developmental Psychology

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The present study examined bidirectional effects between maternal and paternal parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, permissive) and infant temperament (negative affect, orienting/regulatory capacity, surgency) in a diverse sample of 201 mothers and 151 fathers. Using 3 waves of longitudinal data (prenatal, 6 months, and 18 months), this study examined (a) whether maternal and paternal parenting styles prospectively predicted infant temperament; (b) whether mother-and father-reported infant temperament domains predicted parenting styles at 18 months; and (c) whether infant temperament and parenting styles at 6 months predicted parent-reported externalizing and internalizing problem behaviors at 18 months. Mothers and fathers reported on their expected parenting styles at all three waves, infant temperament at 6 months, and their toddler's emerging internalizing and externalizing problems at 18 months. Prospective parenting style effects revealed that maternal authoritative and permissive parenting style predicted infant orienting/regulatory capacity. Child evocative effects indicated infant orienting/regulatory capacity and negative affect predicted greater maternal permissive parenting style. Significant prospective parenting style effects on infant temperament and child evocative effects on paternal parenting style were largely not observed. Several parenting styles and infant temperament domains at 6 months predicted toddlers' externalizing and internalizing problem behaviors but results differed by parent. Findings suggest maternal prenatal perceptions of parenting style predict infant temperament, but temperament can also affect subsequent parenting. More research is needed to identify fathers' bidirectional effects including how fathering is affected by their children's characteristics.

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“…Third, continued research is needed on the underlying processes in low-income families that set children at higher risk for ACEs (McEwen & McEwen, 2017). For example, previous research has found that adults who experienced corporal punishment as children are more likely to hold beliefs about using corporal punishment with their own children (Boppana & Rodriguez, 2017). The parenting–culture nexus warrants important consideration to further understand the impact of ACEs on developmental outcomes as growing scholarship highlights the potential differences in parenting behaviors across cultural groups (e.g., race, ethnicity, nationality) and contexts (e.g., social class, rural/urban) and the broader impact of sociocultural realities and intergenerational transmission of parenting practices (Strompolis et al, 2019).…”

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Longitudinal pathways of maltreated young children: Family stress processes and adverse childhood experiences.

Rose,

Martin,

Trejos-Castillo

et al. 2024

Journal of Family Psychology

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An important issue associated with at-risk families in the child welfare system is the impact of familial stress processes on child developmental outcomes. The present study used the family stress model (FSM) to examine the impact of economic hardship, economic pressure, caregiver emotional distress, caregiver/ partner conflict, caregiver harsh parenting, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on child's cognitive, behavioral, and social outcomes. Data from the National Survey on Child and Adolescent Well-Being II were utilized, and 1,363 children (709 male, 654 female) ages 2-18 months (at Wave 1) were included in the present study. Three waves of data were analyzed in the longitudinal structural equation model, with economic hardship and economic pressure at Wave 1, caregiver emotional distress, caregiver/partner conflict, and caregiver harsh parenting at Wave 2 predicting ACEs and child outcomes at Wave 3. Results were overall consistent with the FSM in that economic hardship led to economic pressure, and caregiver emotional distress and caregiver/partner conflict led to harsh parenting, which subsequently led to ACEs. ACEs led to negative child cognitive outcomes, and for female children only, ACEs led to internalizing/externalizing behaviors. The results demonstrate that over time, familial stress processes led to negative child developmental outcomes in this sample. Study results also highlight the inextricable connection between mild harsh parenting behaviors and more severe forms of maltreatment on child outcomes. The prevention of child maltreatment is emphasized, with a specific focus on increasing positive parenting behaviors and decreasing caregiver emotional distress and caregiver/ partner conflict.

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Mediators between Parenting History and Expected At-Risk Parenting: Role of Conformity, Coping, and Attitudes

Cited by 15 publications

References 47 publications

Underlying mechanisms for racial disparities in parent-child physical and psychological aggression and child abuse risk

Underlying mechanisms for racial disparities in parent-child physical and psychological aggression and child abuse risk

Emerging behavior problems: Bidirectional relations between maternal and paternal parenting styles with infant temperament.

Longitudinal pathways of maltreated young children: Family stress processes and adverse childhood experiences.

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