Unearthing the Developmental and Intergenerational Dynamics of Stress in Parent and Child Functioning

Deater‐Deckard, Kirby; Panneton, Robin

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-55376-4_1

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“…A study conducted on parents and children quarantined in 2009 during the H1N1 influenza showed that the high-stressful isolation increased parents’ psychological distress that in turn had an impact on their children’s well-being ( Sprang and Silman, 2013 ). Children who have parents with high levels of stress showed more externalizing problems and developed less emotion regulation ( Deater-Deckard and Panneton, 2017 ).…”

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“…Moreover, the second aim was to assess whether children’s biological sex, children’s age, and geographical area (Northern Italy, which is the most at-risk area for the spread of the pandemic and for the risk of contagion, vs. the rest of Italy) moderated the structural paths of the model. There is evidence that children’s biological sex can affect parents’ way to respond to children ( Sanders and Morawska, 2018 ) and that parenting self-efficacy can change over time ( Deater-Deckard and Panneton, 2017 ), growing during early childhood ( Weaver et al, 2008 ), and decreasing when children become adolescents ( Glatz and Buchanan, 2015 ). Conversely, we did not expect to find any differences regarding living (or not living) in a high at-risk zone for the COVID-19 (i.e., Northern Italy), as found by recent Italian and Chinese studies ( Jiao et al, 2020 ; Spinelli et al, 2020 ).…”

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Parents and Children During the COVID-19 Lockdown: The Influence of Parenting Distress and Parenting Self-Efficacy on Children’s Emotional Well-Being

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On March 10, 2020, Italy went into lockdown due to the Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic. The World Health Organization highlighted how the lockdown had negative consequences on psychological well-being, especially for children. The present study aimed to investigate parental correlates of children’s emotion regulation during the COVID-19 lockdown. Within the Social Cognitive Theory framework, a path model in which parenting self-efficacy and parental regulatory emotional self-efficacy mediated the relationship between parents’ psychological distress and both children’s emotional regulation, and children’s lability/negativity, was investigated. A total of 277 parents of children aged from 6 to 13 years completed an online survey that assessed their psychological distress, regulatory emotional self-efficacy, and parenting self-efficacy. Parents reported also children’s emotional regulation and lability/negativity. A structural equation model (SEM) using MPLUS 8.3 was tested. Results showed that the hypothesized model exhibited excellent fit, chi-square (83) = 140.40, p < 0.01, RMSEA = 0.05, CFI = 0.97, TLI = 0.96, SRMR = 0.04. The influences of parents’ psychological distress and parents’ regulatory emotional self-efficacy on children’s emotional regulation and lability/negativity were mediated by parenting self-efficacy. The mediation model was invariant across children’s biological sex and age, and geographical residence area (high risk vs. low risk for COVID-19). Results suggested how parents’ beliefs to be competent in managing parental tasks might be a protective factor for their children’s emotional well-being. Implications for intervention programs are discussed.

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Parents and Children During the COVID-19 Lockdown: The Influence of Parenting Distress and Parenting Self-Efficacy on Children’s Emotional Well-Being

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“…Having a child is both a rewarding and taxing experience and parental stress is a normal part of being a parent [ 1 – 4 ]. Parental stress can be defined as “a set of processes that lead to aversive psychological and physiological reactions arising from attempts to adapt to the demands of parenthood” [ 5 ].…”

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“…Caring for an infant can be challenging, particularly for parents of infants who show persistent crying or sleep disturbances [ 9 – 11 ]. Whereas short periods of stress can be beneficial in many ways, long-term and/or chronic stress can have deleterious effects on the infant [ 4 ], and cause both imbalance of the neural circuitry in the brain [ 12 ] and detrimental effects on the immune system [ 13 ].…”

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Psychometric properties of the Danish Parental Stress Scale: Rasch analysis in a sample of mothers with infants

2018

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The Parental Stress Scale (PSS) was developed as a short measure of perceived stress resulting from being a parent. The current study examined the psychometric properties of the Danish version in a sample of 1110 mothers of children aged 0 to 12 months using Rasch models. Emphasis was placed on the issues of uni-dimensionality and absence of differential item functioning relative to the age and educational level of the mothers. Results showed that no adequate fit could be established for the full PSS scale with 18 dichotomized items. Further analyses showed that items 2 and 11 had to be eliminated from the scale, and that the remaining items did not make up a unidimensional PSS scale, but two subscales measuring different aspect of parental stress: a 9-item scale measuring parental stress and a 7-item scale measuring lack of parental satisfaction. Fit to the Rasch model could not be established for any of the two subscales. For the parental stress subscale, we found evidence of local dependence for four item pairs (3 and 4, 9 and 10, 10 and 16, 12 and 16), as well as evidence of two items functioning differentially: item 16 relative to level of education, and item 3 relative to both age and educational level. For the lack of parental satisfaction subscale, we found evidence of local dependence between some two pairs (1 and 17, 17 and 18), but no evidence of differential item functioning. Both subscales fit graphical loglinear Rasch models adjusting for local dependence and differential item functioning. Plotting the adjusted subscale scores against one another showed that the two-scale solution provides additional information, as some mothers are stressed but not lacking in parental satisfaction.

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“…However, acute and chronic stress both negatively impact EF (Finch & Obradović, 2017) and parenting (Deater-Deckard & Panneton, 2017). Although measurement of adult EF is well understood in academic-led research (Toplak, West, & Stanovich, 2013), little work has examined EF measurement in community contexts, particularly among parents experiencing socioeconomic hardships.…”

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Measurement of parental executive function in early childhood settings: Instrument reliability and validity in community‐led research projects

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Barker

Fisher

2020

Journal Community Psychology

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A growing number of early childhood (EC) parenting programs target adult executive function (EF) to build responsive parenting behaviors and to promote positive child development. Although measurement of EF is well understood in academic research, little work has examined EF measurement in community settings. The present study examined psychometric properties of the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function—Adult Version among 203 parents whose children were enrolled in EC programs serving under‐resourced communities. We calculated Cronbach's α and mean‐item correlations to test internal consistency reliability. To test factor structure, we conducted exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analyses. Results suggest adequate internal consistency and that factor structures, beyond the original proposed, are appropriate for our community sample. Together, findings indicate that self‐report measures of adult EF may perform differently for families experiencing adversity, raising questions about the acceptability of clinical EF tools in in underserved communities.

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Unearthing the Developmental and Intergenerational Dynamics of Stress in Parent and Child Functioning

Cited by 45 publications

References 25 publications

Parents and Children During the COVID-19 Lockdown: The Influence of Parenting Distress and Parenting Self-Efficacy on Children’s Emotional Well-Being

Parents and Children During the COVID-19 Lockdown: The Influence of Parenting Distress and Parenting Self-Efficacy on Children’s Emotional Well-Being

Psychometric properties of the Danish Parental Stress Scale: Rasch analysis in a sample of mothers with infants

Measurement of parental executive function in early childhood settings: Instrument reliability and validity in community‐led research projects

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