The Relationship of Maternal Characteristics and Perceptions of Children to Children's Emotional and Behavioral Problems

Renk, Kimberly; Roddenberry, Angela; Oliveros, Arazais; Sieger, Karin

doi:10.1300/j019v29n01_03

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“…Further extensions of the transactional model have been proposed to explain childhood psychopathology and suggest that parenting variables may exacerbate childhood internalizing and externalizing behavior problems [16,17]. Indeed, empirical research suggests that parenting stress is predictive of childhood externalizing and internalizing behavior problems [12,[18][19][20], and that higher levels of parenting stress can negatively affect childhood behavior problems through multiple processes. For example, parenting stress has been found to interfere with the parent's ability to discipline his or her child adequately [21], as well as negatively impact the parent's ability to manage his or her child's behavior [13][14]21], to decrease parental problem-solving skills [22], and finally, to impair the parent's ability to take control and responsibility for his or her child's behavior [23].…”

Section: Parenting Stress and Child Behavior Problemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More recently, Renk and her colleagues [20] found that the relation between childhood behavior problems and parenting stress was mediated by the parent's negative perceptions of his or her child's behavior. Thus, it has been hypothesized that parents may develop mental representations of their children that promote biased interpretations of their children's behavior [20]. Given these and other findings, it appears that parenting stress could potentially have a significant and unique impact on childhood behavior problems.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Parenting Stress as a Predictor of Age Upon Admission to a Child Psychiatric Inpatient Facility

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2007

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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The current study examined child symptoms and parenting stress as predictors of children's age upon admission to a psychiatric inpatient facility. The children (N = 252) ranged from 6 to 12 years of age; most were male (71%) and over half were African American (59%). Externalizing behavior symptoms were associated with a younger age upon admission and internalizing behavior symptoms were associated with an older age. Parental social isolation was associated with a younger child's age upon admission, whereas difficulty with parental attachment was associated with an older age.

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Section: Parenting Stress and Child Behavior Problemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Parenting Stress as a Predictor of Age Upon Admission to a Child Psychiatric Inpatient Facility

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Stoppelbein

Greening

2007

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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“…Renk, Roddenberry, Oliveros and Sieger (2007) asked 46 mothers to report on their stress experience and on their child's internalizing as well as externalizing problem behavior. Likewise, Costa, Weems, Pellerin and Dalton (2006) report on the relations between parenting stress and parents' proxy reports on internalizing and externalizing problems based on a sample of 300 parents.…”

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Relationships between Maternal Parenting Stress and Reports on Children's Internalizing and Externalizing Problems: A Cross-Lagged Structural Equation Model

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Lohaus²,

Schmitz³

et al. 2013

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This article presents results of a two-wave panel study with a one-year interval between two time points. The main aim was to examine the reciprocal relationship between parenting stress and reports on problem behavior based on cross-lagged structural equation models. At both time points, adolescents (M = 12.51 years on the first time point) and their mothers reported on internalizing and externalizing problem behavior of the adolescents. Additionally, mothers reported on their parenting stress. Independent of grade, mothers of boys report more parenting stress than mothers of girls. Maternal reports on problem behavior are lower than adolescents' self-reports and both reports are correlated with maternal parenting stress. The results of the cross-lagged model comparisons indicate a unidirectional relation between parenting stress and proxy-reports/cross-informant discrepancies regarding adolescent problem behavior: parenting stress appears to be a predictor of proxy reports/cross-informant discrepancies but not vice versa. The results are discussed in terms of a meaningfulness of cross-informant discrepancies.

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“…This dependence on parents' report raises concerns regarding source bias, which may be particularly problematic because part of the association between parenting stress and reported child problem behavior may be mediated by parents' negative perceptions of the child (Renk et al 2007). Some notable exceptions to such source bias shortcomings in this literature include a parenting stress study that obtained observations of child negative problem behavior in addition to parent report (Crnic et al 2005).…”

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Association Between Independent Reports of Maternal Parenting Stress and Children’s Internalizing Symptomatology

Rodriguez

2010

J Child Fam Stud

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Although considerable research has investigated parenting stress and children's externalizing behavior problems, comparatively less has considered parenting stress in relation to children's internalizing difficulties. Even less research on parenting stress has incorporated children's report of their internalizing symptoms or the potential mediating role of children's attributional style. The current study hypothesized that children's independent reports of internalizing symptoms would be associated with mothers' reports of parenting stress through children's attributional style. A community sample of 92 motherchild dyads participated. Results suggest maternal parenting stress from both child and parent sources were significantly associated with children's anxious and depressive symptoms. Parenting stress was associated with children's internalizing symptoms partially mediated by children's maladaptive attributional style, primarily negative attributions for positive outcomes. Findings are discussed in terms of future directions to tease apart specific areas of parenting stress that may be most pertinent as well as to explore other cognitive mechanisms in children that may relate to parenting stress and children's adjustment.

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The Relationship of Maternal Characteristics and Perceptions of Children to Children's Emotional and Behavioral Problems

Cited by 40 publications

References 18 publications

Parenting Stress as a Predictor of Age Upon Admission to a Child Psychiatric Inpatient Facility

Parenting Stress as a Predictor of Age Upon Admission to a Child Psychiatric Inpatient Facility

Relationships between Maternal Parenting Stress and Reports on Children's Internalizing and Externalizing Problems: A Cross-Lagged Structural Equation Model

Association Between Independent Reports of Maternal Parenting Stress and Children’s Internalizing Symptomatology

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