Parent-child relationship and child anger proneness in infancy and attachment security at toddler age: a short-term longitudinal study of mother- and father-child dyads

Bendel-Stenzel, Lilly C.; An, Danming; Kochanska, Grazyna

doi:10.1080/14616734.2021.1976399

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“…Lipscomb et al (2011) found that adversarial dynamics between children's negative emotionality and mothers' and fathers' overreactive parenting between infancy and toddler age were largely similar for mother-and father-child dyads. Bendel-Stenzel et al (2022) found an interaction effect of infants' anger and mother-child security at 15 months for children's outcome (self-regulation) at 5 ½ years, consistent with the differential susceptibility model, for mother-child dyads but not for father-child dyads. In their recent review, Taraban and Shaw (2018) concluded that evidence for the association between child difficulty and harsh parenting was clearer for mothers and children than for fathers and children.…”

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The parent’s and the child’s internal working models of each other moderate cascades from child difficulty to socialization outcomes: Preliminary evidence for dual moderation?

Kochanska

2023

Dev Psychopathol

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Infants’ difficulty, typically characterized as proneness to negative emotionality, is commonly considered a risk for future maladaptive developmental trajectories, mostly because it often foreshadows increased parental power assertion, typically linked to future negative child outcomes. However, growing evidence of divergent developmental paths that unfold from infant difficulty has invigorated research on causes of such multifinality. Kochanska et al. (2019) proposed that parent and child Internal Working Models (IWMs) of each other are key, with the parent’s IWM of the child moderating the link between child difficulty and parental power assertion, and the child’s IWM of the parent moderating the link between power assertion and child outcomes. In Children and Parents Study (200 community mothers, fathers, and children), child difficulty was observed at 8 months, parents’ power assertion at 16 months, and children’s outcomes rated by parents at age 3. Parents’ IWMs were assessed with a mentalization measure at 8 months and children’s IWMs were coded from semi-projective narratives at age 3. The cascade from infant difficulty to maternal power assertion to negative child outcomes was present only when both the mother’s and the child’s IWMs of each other were negative. We did not support the model for father-child dyads.

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The parent’s and the child’s internal working models of each other moderate cascades from child difficulty to socialization outcomes: Preliminary evidence for dual moderation?

Kochanska

2023

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“…It was found that the group of leftover children had a significantly lower sense of safety than those who were not left behind, and the longer they were left behind, the stronger the children's sense of unsafety [32]. Parent-offspring separation led to poor interpersonal safety among left-behind children, who were more prone to exhibiting emotional instabilities.…”

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The Relationship between Parent-Offspring Communication and the School Adaptation of Leftover Children in Overseas Countries: The Mediating Role of Companionship and the Moderating Role of a Sense of Safety

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Shen

Deng

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Behavioral Sciences

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Background: In the diasporic eastern coastal region of China, leftover children are a unique group of children; their social adaptation challenges are more prominent due to transnational separation from parents. This study explores the relationship between parent-offspring communication and school adaptation among leftover children. Methods: We administered questionnaires to 957 children from six schools in June and December of 2022. All students in the sample were randomly selected from within the classrooms. In total, 561 (47.95% female, mean age = 12.84, SD = 0.95) of them were leftover children. Self-report questionnaires on communication with their parents, school adaptation, companionship, and feelings of safety were used in this investigation We subsequently used SPSS software and the PROCESS plugin to analyze the relationships between variables. Results: A significant and positive relationship was found between parent-offspring communication and school adaptation in leftover children. Companionship mediated this effect. Additionally, the impact of parent-offspring communication on companionship was moderated by a sense of safety. Conclusions: The study concluded that parent-offspring communication, school adaptation, companionship, and a sense of safety were all positively correlated. In addition, companionship partially mediated the relationship between parent-offspring communication and school adaptation. Moreover, a sense of safety played a moderating role. These conclusions can provide empirical support for improving the school adaptation of leftover children.

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Considering heterogeneity within negative emotionality can inform the distinction between diathesis-stress and differential susceptibility: Children’s early anger and fear as moderators of effects of parental socialization on antisocial conduct

Kim,

Kochanska

2024

Dev Psychopathol

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The importance of interactions between child temperament and parenting has been accepted ever since Thomas and Chess (1977) proposed their “goodness-of-fit” construct, but over the last three decades, pertinent research has grown exponentially. Researchers examining child characteristics that can moderate the effects of socialization have tested increasingly complex, nuanced, and sophisticated models, largely inspired by the highly influential frameworks of child plasticity or differential susceptibility (Belsky & Pluess, 2009). Yet, multiple questions remain unsettled. We addressed four such questions as applied to predicting children’s observed disregard for rules at age 4.5 in a study of 200 community families from the US Midwest. (a) We examined children’s observed negative emotionality at 16 months, most commonly seen as a plasticity “trait,” but separating anger and fear proneness, which may differently moderate effects of socialization. (b) We examined two separate aspects of observed parental socialization at age 3, mutually responsive orientation and power assertion. (c) We distinguished analytically diathesis-stress from differential susceptibility. (d) We examined all effects in mother– and father–child relationships. We supported both diathesis-stress and differential susceptibility, depending on the facet of negative emotionality, the aspect of socialization considered, and parental gender, highlighting the nuanced nature of the processes involved.

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Parent-child relationship and child anger proneness in infancy and attachment security at toddler age: a short-term longitudinal study of mother- and father-child dyads

Cited by 5 publications

References 43 publications

The parent’s and the child’s internal working models of each other moderate cascades from child difficulty to socialization outcomes: Preliminary evidence for dual moderation?

The parent’s and the child’s internal working models of each other moderate cascades from child difficulty to socialization outcomes: Preliminary evidence for dual moderation?

The Relationship between Parent-Offspring Communication and the School Adaptation of Leftover Children in Overseas Countries: The Mediating Role of Companionship and the Moderating Role of a Sense of Safety

Considering heterogeneity within negative emotionality can inform the distinction between diathesis-stress and differential susceptibility: Children’s early anger and fear as moderators of effects of parental socialization on antisocial conduct

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