Social disadvantage and neglectful parenting as precursors to the development of antisocial and aggressive child behavior: Testing a theoretical model

Abstract

The present study tested a theoretical model advanced to understand the direct and mediated effects of social disadvantage, neglectful parenting, and punitive parenting in the developmental trajectory of aggressive and antisocial behavior in young school-aged children. To test the model, families of 310 first grade children and 361 fifth grade children, participating in a universal prevention trial in high-risk areas of a medium-sized metropolitan area, provided data. Multi-method and multi-source indices of the four predictive constructs (Social Disadvantage, Denial of Care Neglect, Supervisory Neglect, and Punitive Discipline) were obtained at the time of enrollment. Multi-method and multi-source indices of the criterion construct (Aggression and Antisocial Behavior) were obtained at the time of enrollment and at a five year follow-up. Based on structural equation modeling, the results established care neglect as a mediator of social disadvantage, and the importance of care neglect to both punitive discipline and antisocial outcomes in the first-and fifth-grade cohorts. Supervisory neglect, however, was important in the antisocial outcome of the fifth-grade cohort only. Overall, the results established the importance of distinguishing between two subtypes of neglect and the need to consider the role of discipline in concert with neglect when attempting to understand the impact of parenting on the development of antisocial behavior.

Assessing Children’s Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence

“…Although many childhood experiences are modeled continuously (e.g., Greenwald et al 1997;Knutson et al 2004), there is a tendency to treat children's exposure to IPV as a static and binary category, rather than as a continuous, dynamic process. This approach likely limits our understanding of both quantitative and qualitative differences among circumstances of IPV exposure.…”

Reciprocal influences between maternal discipline techniques and aggression in children and adolescents

“…Furthermore, the link between parental discipline and child aggression has been found in studies that controlled for the effects of potentially confounding variables, including ethnicity [Lansford et al, 2004], family composition and both positive and negative neighborhood characteristics [Molnar et al, 2003], neglectful parenting [Knutson et al, 2004], and birth parent psychopathology [Riggins-Caspers et al, 2003]. Weiss et al [1992] found that harsh discipline was predictive of aggressive behavior even after controlling for child temperament, socioeconomic status (SES), and marital violence.…”

Prácticas Educativas Paternas Y Agresividad en Estudiantes Universitarios

“…Otras investigaciones han puesto de manifiesto que el excesivo tanto control conductual como psicológico o, las prácticas educativas caracterizadas por ausencia de control, también favorecen la aparición de conductas de agresividad en los hijos (Krnutson, DeGarmo y Reid, 2004;Mazefsky y Farell, 2005).…”

“…Así, diversas investigaciones han evidenciado que el control conductual, caracterizado por la exigencia de responsabilidades, el establecimiento de límites y la supervisión, se relaciona negativamente con la aparición de agresividad en los hijos. Sin embargo, cuando los padres utilizan métodos basados en el control psicológico, como es la inducción de culpa o el chantaje emocional, los hijos tienden a manifestar en mayor medida comportamientos violentos (Márquez, Villarreal, Verdugo y Montes, 2014).Otras investigaciones han puesto de manifiesto que el excesivo tanto control conductual como psicológico o, las prácticas educativas caracterizadas por ausencia de control, también favorecen la aparición de conductas de agresividad en los hijos (Krnutson, DeGarmo y Reid, 2004;Mazefsky y Farell, 2005).Un aspecto relacionado con el control por parte de los padres y que cabe mencionar, es el conocimiento que éstos tienen de distintos aspectos de la vida de sus hijos. En este sentido Kerr y Stattin (2000) indican que en ocasiones, la forma de determinar el control parental ha consistido en evaInternational Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology…”