Parent Attitudes and Discipline Practices: Profiles and Correlates in a Nationally Representative Sample

Thompson, Ross A.; Christiansen, Elaine H.; Jackson, Shelly L.; Wyatt, Jennifer M.; Colman, Rebecca A.; Peterson, Reece L.; Wilcox, Brian L.; Buckendahl, Chad W.

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“…In combination, a tendency towards hostile attributions and deficits in anger management may increase the risk of using excessive or severe physical punishment (Whiteman et al, 1987). Parental deficits in anger management, both alone and when combined with parental stress, have been positively correlated with an increased potential for child abuse (Ammerman, 1990;Rodriguez and Green, 1997;Thompson et al, 1999). Parental anger may also intensify when parents lack skills to manage their child's difficult behaviour (Ammerman, 1990).…”

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“…Parental anger has been associated with poor parental adjustment (Renk et al, 1999), child behaviour problems and adjustment difficulties (Renk et al, 1999) and the use of physical punishment and coercive discipline strategies Thompson et al, 1999). In combination, a tendency towards hostile attributions and deficits in anger management may increase the risk of using excessive or severe physical punishment (Whiteman et al, 1987).…”

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Why a universal population‐level approach to the prevention of child abuse is essential

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This paper argues for the importance of adopting a population-level approach to promote more effective parenting and to reduce the risk of child maltreatment. Family-based interventions based on social learning principles have been shown to make a useful contribution in the treatment of child maltreatment. However, typically such programmes have been used to treat parents who have already become involved in the child protection system. We argue that the creation of communitywide support structures to support positive parenting is needed to reduce the prevalence of child maltreatment. Such an approach requires several criteria to be met. These include having knowledge about the prevalence rates for the targeted child outcomes sought, knowledge about the prevalence of various parenting and family risk factors, evidence that changing family risk factors reduces the prevalence of targeted problems, having culturally appropriate, cost-effective, evidence-based interventions available and making these widely accessible.

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“…Parental anger has been associated with poor parental adjustment, child behavior problems and adjustment difficulties (Renk, Phares, & Epps, 1999), and the use of physical punishment and coercive discipline strategies (Thompson et al, 1999). When combined with a tendency toward hostile attributions, parents' deficits in anger control may increase the risk of using physical punishment that is excessive or severe in nature (Whiteman et al, 1987).…”

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Does parental attributional retraining and anger management enhance the effects of the triple P-positive parenting program with parents at risk of child maltreatment?

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Ninety-eight parents experiencing significant difficulties in managing their own anger in their interactions with their preschool-aged children were randomly assigned either to an enhanced group-administered behavioral family intervention program based on the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program that incorporated attributional retraining and anger management (EBFI) or a standard behavioral family intervention program (SBFI) that provided training in parenting skills alone. At post-intervention, both conditions were associated with lower levels of observed and parent-reported disruptive child behavior, lower levels of parent-reported dysfunctional parenting, greater parental self-efficacy, less parental distress, relationship conflict and similarly This study was supported by grants from the National Centre for the Prevention of Child Abuse (NCPCA) and Queensland Health. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the following persons in the delivery of therapeutic interventions and in the collection and coding of observational, interview, and parent-report data:

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“…They are less likely to endorse such items as "children will quit crying faster if they are ignored" and "children under three years of age should be expected to feed, bathe, and clothe themselves" (Bavolek, 1984(Bavolek, , 1989a(Bavolek, , 1989b. In fact, research on a nationally representative sample shows that parents with attitudes that devalue children are much more likely to use physical discipline with their children (Thompson et al, 1999). Mothers who endorsed items reflecting the negative attitude of parent-child role reversal when their children were age 2 were more likely to show rejecting parenting behaviors in videotaped interactions at the same time (Shaw, Criss, Schonberg, & Beck, 2004).…”

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Parenting quality: Confirmation of a higher-order latent construct with mothers of Head Start children

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Early Childhood Research Quarterly

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We proposed a higher order latent construct of parenting young children, parenting quality. This higher-order latent construct comprises five component constructs: demographic protection, psychological distress, psychosocial maturity, moral and cognitive reflectivity, and parenting attitudes and beliefs. We evaluated this model with data provided by 199 mothers of 4-year-old children enrolled in Head Start. The model was confirmed with only one adjustment suggested by modification indices. Final RMSEA was .05, CFI .96, and NNFI .94, indicating good model fit. Results were interpreted as emphasizing the interdependence of psychological and environmental demands on parenting. Implications of the model for teachers, early interventionists, and public policy are discussed.We propose a higher-order latent construct of parenting young children that extends and moves beyond ecological and process models. Ecological and process models (e.g., Belsky, 1984; Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 1998;Kotchik & Forehand, 2002) differentiate family environmental or contextual variables from parental personality and psychological functioning. We, too, subscribed for many years to such a model, proposing that parenting beliefs and attitudes as well as behaviors would be predicted by (1) age of mother; (2) demographic characteristics; (3) maternal affect; and (4) maternal developmental level (Hubbs-Tait, Culp, © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Laura Hubbs-Tait, Department of Human Development and Family Science, 341 HES, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078-6122; e-mail: E-mail: laura.hubbs@okstate.edu.. Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. NIH Public Access Author ManuscriptEarly Child Res Q. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2009 July 22. Published in final edited form as:Early Child Res Q. , 1997). Our viewpoint changed when we tried to integrate the child's perspective on his/her demands with the parent's perspective on meeting them. From the child's perspective, the identity of predictors of parenting quality is irrelevant. What matters to the child is whether the parent can be responsive to the child's needs and supportive of the child's development. Put most simply, anything that interferes with the parent's ability to address the child's needs is bad; anything that enhances the parent's ability is good. What matters to the parent is having the physical and emotional energy first, to be patient with the child's demands and, second, to respond appropriately to them. Integrating across parent a...

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Parent Attitudes and Discipline Practices: Profiles and Correlates in a Nationally Representative Sample

Cited by 34 publications

References 15 publications

Why a universal population‐level approach to the prevention of child abuse is essential

Why a universal population‐level approach to the prevention of child abuse is essential

Does parental attributional retraining and anger management enhance the effects of the triple P-positive parenting program with parents at risk of child maltreatment?

Parenting quality: Confirmation of a higher-order latent construct with mothers of Head Start children

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