Young Children's Adjustment to Chronic Family Adversity: A Longitudinal Study of Low-Income Families

Shaw, Daniel S.; Winslow, Emily B.; Owens, Elizabeth B.; Hood, Nancy

doi:10.1097/00004583-199805000-00017

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“…As predicted, less parenting stress was related to more protective factors. Results were also consistent with past research, with elevated parenting stress found to be associated with behavior problems (e.g., Barry et al, 2005;Shaw et al, 1998).…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Studies examining children's behavior problems and parenting stress across time have found significant correlations between these variables (Shaw et al, 1998;Williford et al, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Not only have children's behavior problems predicted parenting stress, but parenting stress has also been found to predict children's behavior (Shaw, Winslow, Owens, & Hood, 1998). In another longitudinal study, Shaw and colleagues (1998) collected data on infants and continued to collect data until they were 3 and half years of age.…”

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confidence: 99%

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An Initial Investigation of Parenting Stress, Social-Emotional Protective Factors, and Behavior Concerns within a Head Start Population

Bender¹,

Carlson²

2013

JEDP

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This study examines associations between parenting stress, protective factors, and behavior concerns in an at-risk preschool population. Participants included 77 parents of children enrolled in Head Start programs in the Midwest, which served predominantly low-income, diverse parent and child populations. Parents completed a parenting stress questionnaire and a questionnaire that assessed for children's protective factors and behavior concerns. Associations were found between elevated protective factors and low parenting stress, as well as between elevated behavior concerns and elevated parenting stress. Parents of children exhibiting more protective factors had significantly less parenting stress, compared to parents of children exhibiting more behavior concerns. Additionally, parents with non-clinical levels of parenting stress had children that exhibited significantly more protective factors and less behavior concerns compared to children of parents with clinically significant levels of parenting stress. This is the first study to demonstrate that low levels of parenting stress are associated with more protective factors in an at-risk preschool population. Future research needs to explore the predictive nature parenting stress and protective factors have on one another, given the bi-directionality of parent-child interactions.

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confidence: 89%

“…Studies examining children's behavior problems and parenting stress across time have found significant correlations between these variables (Shaw et al, 1998;Williford et al, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

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An Initial Investigation of Parenting Stress, Social-Emotional Protective Factors, and Behavior Concerns within a Head Start Population

Bender¹,

Carlson²

2013

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“…We took account of psychosocial adversity in our analyses, as it is known to be associated with both child externalising problems (Shaw, Winslow, Owens, & Hood, 1998;Rutter, Giller, & Hagell, 1998) and less optimal parenting styles (O'Connor, 2002), including in the current sample . In principle, psychosocial adversity might also influence intervening cognitive processes, including child tendency to attribute hostile intent, or maternal attributions relevant to parenting behaviour.…”

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A Longitudinal Investigation of Maternal Influences on the Development of Child Hostile Attributions and Aggression

Healy

Murray

Cooper

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Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

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contribute to the development of such hostile attribution tendencies. We examined factors that contribute to individual differences in child hostile attributions and aggression, focusing on potential pathways from maternal hostile attributions via negative parenting behavior.Method: We conducted a longitudinal study of 98 mothers and children (47 male, 49 female), recruited from groups experiencing high and low levels of psychosocial adversity. Maternal hostile attributions, observed parenting, and child behaviour were assessed at 18-months and 5-years child age; and child hostile attributions were also examined at 5-years. Independent assessments of maternal and child processes were utilized as far as possible.Results: Analyses provided support for a direct influence of maternal hostile attributions on the development of child hostile attributions and aggressive behaviour. Maternal hostile attributions were also associated with negative parenting behaviour, which in turn influenced child adjustment. Even taking account of possible parenting influences and pre-existing child difficulties, hostile attributions in the mother showed a direct link with child aggression at 5-years. Maternal hostile attributions were themselves related to psychosocial adversity.Conclusions: Maternal hostile attributions are prevalent in high risk samples, and are related to less optimal parenting behaviour, child hostile attributions, and child aggression. Targeting hostile maternal cognitions may be a useful adjunct to parenting programs.

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“…More proximal environmental risk factors include psychosocial stressors (Ackerman et al, 1999;Campbell et al, 2000;Deater-Deckard et al, 1998;Shaw, Winslow, Owens, & Hood, 1998), which encompass indicators of mothers' psychological well-being, such as depressive symptoms, substance abuse, and criminal behavior, as well as mothers' lack of social support and experience with domestic violence.…”

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Effortful control among low-income preschoolers in three cities: Stability, change, and individual differences.

Li‐Grining

2007

Developmental Psychology

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Existing developmental models of effortful control focus more on the roles of child characteristics and parenting and focus less on the contributions of poverty-related stressors to individual differences in children's self-regulatory competence. Using a representative sample of low-income, predominantly African American and Latino children (n ϭ 439), the author examined effortful control at ages 2-4 and again 16 months later. Delayed gratification showed moderate stability and improvement over time. Risk factors were associated with individual differences in these developmental patterns, net of child age, gender, temperament, and child-mother connectedness. Low birth weight compromised preschoolers' delayed gratification and executive control. Exposure to more sociodemographic and residential stressors jeopardized children's executive control but did not jeopardize delayed gratification.

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Young Children's Adjustment to Chronic Family Adversity: A Longitudinal Study of Low-Income Families

Cited by 94 publications

References 21 publications

An Initial Investigation of Parenting Stress, Social-Emotional Protective Factors, and Behavior Concerns within a Head Start Population

An Initial Investigation of Parenting Stress, Social-Emotional Protective Factors, and Behavior Concerns within a Head Start Population

A Longitudinal Investigation of Maternal Influences on the Development of Child Hostile Attributions and Aggression

Effortful control among low-income preschoolers in three cities: Stability, change, and individual differences.

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