Self-reported maternal parenting style and confidence and infant temperament in a multi-ethnic community

Prady, Stephanie L.; Kiernan, Kathleen; Fairley, Lesley; Wilson, Sarah Louise; Wright, John

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“…Early work from BiB suggests that consanguineous relationships, mainly seen as a risk factor for congenital anomalies, might simultaneously protect against psychosocial stress [28]. We have also found that Pakistani mothers report feeling more confident about their abilities as a parent and fewer of them adopt a hostile approach to parenting than White British women [29]. Using linked General Practice (GP) data, we have found that Pakistani mothers have a higher prevalence of undiagnosed and untreated depression and anxiety, and that these mothers have children with worse socioemotional wellbeing at age 4-5 years [6,14,30].…”

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Growing up in Bradford: protocol for the age 7–11 follow up of the Born in Bradford birth cohort

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Background: Born in Bradford (BiB) is a prospective multi-ethnic pregnancy and birth cohort study that was established to examine determinants of health and development during childhood and, subsequently, adult life in a deprived multi-ethnic population in the north of England. Between 2007 and 2010, the BiB cohort recruited 12, 453 women who experienced 13,776 pregnancies and 13,858 births, along with 3353 of their partners. Forty five percent of the cohort are of Pakistani origin. Now that children are at primary school, the first full follow-up of the cohort is taking place. The aims of the follow-up are to investigate the determinants of children's pre-pubertal health and development, including through understanding parents' health and wellbeing, and to obtain data on exposures in childhood that might influence future health. Methods: We are employing a multi-method approach across three data collection arms (community-based family visits, school based physical assessment, and whole classroom cognitive, motor function and wellbeing measures) to follow-up over 9000 BiB children aged 7-11 years and their families between 2017 and 2021. We are collecting detailed parent and child questionnaires, cognitive and sensorimotor assessments, blood pressure, anthropometry and blood samples from parents and children. Dual x-ray absorptiometry body scans, accelerometry and urine samples are collected on subsamples. Informed consent is collected for continued routine data linkage to health, social care and education records. A range of engagement activities are being used to raise the profile of BiB and to disseminate findings.Discussion: Our multi-method approach to recruitment and assessment provides an efficient method of collecting rich data on all family members. Data collected will enhance BiB as a resource for the international research community to study the interplay between ethnicity, socioeconomic circumstances and biology in relation to cardiometabolic health, mental health, education, cognitive and sensorimotor development and wellbeing.

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“…Higher scores indicated increasing efficacy and warmth and lower hostility. Due to skewness within these distributions, a 20th centile cutoff was used whereby those with the lowest fifth of scores were deemed to have less warmth and self-efficacy with higher hostility, as utilised previously in other BiB studies [48]. Information pertaining to socio-demographic factors including maternal age, marital status, maternal education, family size, unemployment, ethnicity and English as first language were all completed at baseline.…”

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Child mental health and resilience in the context of socioeconomic disadvantage: results from the Born in Bradford cohort study

Kirby

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Allgar

2019

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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Socioeconomic disadvantage has been linked to mental health difficulties in children and adolescents, although many children appear to do well despite exposure to financial adversity in childhood. Our study looked at the effects of family financial difficulty on children's mental health outcomes (n = 636) at 4-5 years in a multi-ethnic UK cohort, the Born in Bradford cohort. We considered potential parent and child variables promoting resilience in this population. Univariate linear regression was used to identify associations between family financial difficulty measured antenatally and child mental health difficulties measured by teacher-rated Strengths and Difficulties (SDQ) scores at 4-5 years. Hierarchical multivariate regression was used to test for potential moderating effects of parent and child factors. Mothers completed the General Health Questionnaire-28, Kessler-6 Questionnaire and questions related to parenting warmth, hostility and confidence. Parent-rated Infant Characteristic Questionnaires and teacher-rated Early Years Foundation Stage scores provided information on child temperament, literacy and physical development as potential moderators. Financial difficulty was associated with worse mental health outcomes in children. High parent warmth, high child literacy scores and physical development scores were all associated with positive child mental health outcomes at 4-5 years. In terms of protective effects, only maternal warmth was found to significantly moderate the relationship between financial difficulty and child mental health difficulties. The current study demonstrates that family financial difficulty is associated with poorer child mental health outcomes in a UK cohort of mothers and their school-aged children. It provides evidence of the positive relationships between warm parenting, child literacy and child physical development with mental health in young children. The study supports the finding that warm parenting moderates the relationship between family financial difficulty and interventions supporting this aspect of parenting may therefore provide particular benefit to children growing up in this context.

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“…Mexican immigrant mothers, compared with European American mothers, have reported higher levels of parenting self-efficacy, although parenting self-efficacy for this population may diminish as acculturation increases (Ceballo & Hurd, 2008;Izzo, Weiss, Shanahan, & Rodriguez-Brown, 2000). Using a large sample of mothers living in the United Kingdom, just more than half of whom were of Pakistani origin and the remainder White British, researchers found that the mothers of Pakistani origin reported more parental confidence overall (Prady, Kiernan, Fairley, Wilson, & Wright, 2014).…”

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The Relationship Between Personality and Parental Confidence in Mothers of School-Aged Children

Henney

2016

Sage Open

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This study explores the relationship between personality and parental confidence among mothers of school-aged children. The relationships between personality and parenting competence and also between parental confidence and parenting competence are established in the literature, but the relationship between personality and parental confidence is little explored. One hundred twenty-one mothers of school-aged children were surveyed regarding their demographics and parenting confidence, and they also completed the 16PF personality measure. Hierarchical regression analysis found that higher Dominance, Self-Control, and Independence predicted higher maternal confidence, whereas higher Apprehension and Anxiety predicted lower maternal confidence. Black mothers had higher levels of parental confidence overall than mothers of other ethnicities. These results are discussed in the context of understanding parenting behaviors and designing parenting interventions.

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Self-reported maternal parenting style and confidence and infant temperament in a multi-ethnic community

Cited by 7 publications

References 47 publications

Growing up in Bradford: protocol for the age 7–11 follow up of the Born in Bradford birth cohort

Growing up in Bradford: protocol for the age 7–11 follow up of the Born in Bradford birth cohort

Child mental health and resilience in the context of socioeconomic disadvantage: results from the Born in Bradford cohort study

The Relationship Between Personality and Parental Confidence in Mothers of School-Aged Children

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