Relations among temperament, parenting and problem behavior in young children

Karreman, Annemiek; Haas, Stans de; Tuijl, Cathy van; Aken, Marcel A. G. van; Deković, Maja

doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2009.10.008

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“…In the current study, we found moderate-sized associations, with children high on effort control and low on negative affect showing less maladjustment. These direct associations between temperament and behavioral/emotional problems corresponded with what has been found in many past studies (Karreman, de Haas, van Tuijl, van Ahen, & Deković, 2010; Olson, Sameroff, Kerr, Lopez, & Wellman, 2005; Putnam, Sanson & Rothbart, 2002). …”

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The Role of Temperament by Family Environment Interactions in Child Maladjustment

Chen

Deater‐Deckard

Bell

2014

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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In order to advance our understanding of the etiology of individual differences in child maladjustment (i.e., conduct and emotional problems), we tested hypotheses about the statistical interactions between child temperament and two aspects of the family environment: maternal negativity and positivity, and household chaos (e.g., crowding, noise, lack of routines). Mothers (n = 149) reported on their child’s effortful control, negative affect, surgency, and behavioral/emotional problems. The age range of the children was 3 to 7 years old and half of the sample was girls. Observers rated maternal negativity and positivity based on brief structured interaction tasks in the laboratory. Child temperament moderated the association between maternal negativity/positivity and child maladjustment. Maternal negativity and child problem behavior were associated only for those children who also were high in surgency or negative affectivity. Maternal positivity was associated with less child problem behavior for those high in surgency. Child effortful control interacted with both maternal negativity and chaos. Maternal negativity and child problem behavior were most strongly associated for children who were low in effortful control and living in chaotic homes. The results point to distinct transactions between child temperament and maternal negativity/positivity that depend in part on the dimensions of temperament and parenting behavior in question.

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The Role of Temperament by Family Environment Interactions in Child Maladjustment

Chen

Deater‐Deckard

Bell

2014

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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“…It is noteworthy that across the reviewed literature there is little consistency in which aspects of maternal and paternal rearing behaviour differentially influence anxiety symptoms in the child. For example, parental over control as a predictor of child anxiety symptoms has been shown to be more important in mothers than fathers (Hudson, Comer, & Kendall, 2008), more important in fathers than mothers (van der Bruggen, Stams, Bögels, & Paulussen-Hoogeboom, 2010), and equally as important in mothers and fathers (Karreman, et al, 2010). One obvious next step is to repeat the current study looking at specific, theoretically-driven, aspects of parenting.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…There are many studies in which rearing characteristics other than parental anxiety in both fathers and mothers predict child anxiety symptoms, for example: overprotection (Edwards, et al, 2010), parental control (van der Bruggen, Bögels, & van Zeilst, 2010) and negative control (Karreman, de Haas, van Tuijl, van Aken, & Dekovic, 2010). There are other explanations too, for example:…”

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Maternal and paternal influences on the developmental trajectory of childhood anxiety symptoms: a genetically sensitive investigation

Field¹,

Lester²,

Cartwright‐Hatton³

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One theory suggests that anxious fathers may pose a greater environmental influence on childhood anxiety than anxious mothers. This study uses the Early Growth and Development Study (EGDS) to test rearing parent anxiety influences from mothers and fathers on child anxiety symptoms between 18 months and 4.5, while considering inherited influences. The EGDS is a longitudinal, multisite study of adopted children recruited through US adoption agencies, and their adoptive and birth parents. Bayesian latent growth models of the trajectory of child anxiety symptoms over 3 years predicted from inherited (birth parent anxiety) and adoptive parent anxiety influences were compared for maternal and paternal measures. Parameter estimates and their HPD intervals provided evidence that the slope for anxiety symptoms between 18 and 54 months is trivially affected by both rearing parent anxiety and inherited influences from both mothers and fathers. Similarly, rearing parental anxiety and inherited influence from both mothers and fathers had only a very small effect on the intercept for growth (anxiety symptoms at 18 months old). The evidence for differences between mothers and fathers for any of these parameters was, at best, weak. Contrary to theoretical predictions, anxiety in the rearing father is unlikely to have a more important role in fostering child anxiety symptoms than that in the rearing mother.

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“…Effortful control reflects the degree to which children engage in inhibitory control such as stopping behavior and shifting and focusing their attention and is associated with less hostile, controlling, or over-reactive parenting (Bridgett et al, 2009; Morrell & Murray, 2003). Surgency/extraversion, hereafter referred to as surgency, reflects the extent to which children express high intensity positive affect and are active, impulsive, stimulation-seeking, and social; this dimension has been linked to less sensitive or more negative parenting (Karreman, de Haas, van Tuijl, van Aken, & Deković, 2010; Planalp et al, 2013). However, it should be noted that positive emotionality, an aspect of surgency, has been linked to fewer negative parenting practices (Bridgett, Laake, Gartstein & Dorn, 2013).…”

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Toddler emotional states, temperamental traits, and their interaction: Associations with mothers’ and fathers’ parenting

Fields-Olivieri

Cole

Maggi

2017

Journal of Research in Personality

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We investigated the degree to which toddlers’ observed emotional states, toddlers’ temperamental traits, and their interaction accounted for variance in mothers’ and fathers’ parenting. Main effects of two emotional states (positive emotion and negative emotion), three temperamental traits (negative affectivity, effortful control, and surgency) as well as state-by-trait interactions, were examined in relation to parental sensitivity, positive affect, and negative affect. The hypothesis that toddlers’ temperamental traits would moderate the association between their observed emotional states and parenting was partially supported. Significant state-by-trait interactions were found in models predicting the probability that mothers and fathers expressed negative affect towards their toddlers. For parental sensitivity and positive affect, only main effects of temperament and/or emotion expression accounted for variance in parenting.

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Relations among temperament, parenting and problem behavior in young children

Cited by 81 publications

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The Role of Temperament by Family Environment Interactions in Child Maladjustment

The Role of Temperament by Family Environment Interactions in Child Maladjustment

Maternal and paternal influences on the developmental trajectory of childhood anxiety symptoms: a genetically sensitive investigation

Toddler emotional states, temperamental traits, and their interaction: Associations with mothers’ and fathers’ parenting

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