ArticleBMC pediatrics2014
Predictors of positive and negative parenting behaviours: evidence from the ALSPAC cohort.
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- Parental Reflective Functioning and Its Association With Parenting Behaviors in Infancy and Early Childhood: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Gender-Differentiated Parenting Revisited: Meta-Analysis Reveals Very Few Differences in Parental Control of Boys and Girls.PloS one · 2016Pooled it
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- Mellow Babies: A Randomised Feasibility Trial of an Intervention to Improve the Quality of Parent-Infant Interactions and Parental Mental Wellbeing.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Maternal-infant interaction quality is associated with child NR3C1 CpG site methylation at 7 years of age.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2023Article
- Association of self-reported mother-infant relationship with child and adolescent mental health.BJPsych open · 2023Article
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- A Multilevel Approach to Understanding the Determinants of Maternal Harsh Parenting: the Importance of Maternal Age and Perceived Partner Support.Journal of child and family studies · 2021Article
- Birth Experience Mediates the Association Between Fear of Childbirth and Mother-Child-Bonding Up to 14 Months Postpartum: Findings From the Prospective Cohort Study DREAM.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- The birth experience and subsequent maternal caregiving attitudes and behavior: a birth cohort study.Archives of women's mental health · 2019Article
- Impact of Maternal Perinatal Anxiety on Social-Emotional Development of 2-Year-Olds, A Prospective Study of Norwegian Mothers and Their Offspring : The Impact of Perinatal Anxiety on Child Development.Maternal and child health journal · 2019Article
- The Impact of Parental Role Distributions, Work Participation, and Stress Factors on Family Health-Related Outcomes: Study Protocol of the Prospective Multi-Method Cohort "Dresden Study on Parenting, Work, and Mental Health" (DREAM).Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Preventing at-risk children from developing antisocial and criminal behaviour: a longitudinal study examining the role of parenting, community and societal factors in middle childhood.BMC psychology · 2018Article
- The mitigating effects of maternal social support and paternal involvement on the intergenerational transmission of violence.Child abuse & neglect · 2018Article
- Characteristics of positive-interaction parenting style among primiparous teenage, optimal age, and advanced age mothers in Canada.BMC pediatrics · 2018Article
- Cohort Profile: The European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood (ELSPAC) in the Czech Republic.International journal of epidemiology · 2017Article
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backgroundThis study aimed to establish the predictors of positive and negative parenting behaviours in a United Kingdom population. The majority of previous research has focused on specific risk factors and has used a variety of outcome measures. This study used a single assessment of parenting behaviours and started with a wide range of potential pre- and post-natal variables; such an approach might be used to identify families who might benefit from parenting interventions.
methodsUsing a case-control subsample of 160 subjects from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), regression analysis was undertaken to model parenting behaviours at 12 months as measured by the Mellow Parenting Observational System.
resultsPositive parenting increased with maternal age at delivery, levels of education and with prenatal anxiety. More negative interactions were observed among younger mothers, mothers with male infants, with prenatal non-smokers and among mothers who perceived they had a poor support structure.
conclusionsThis study indicates two factors which may be important in identifying families most at risk of negative parenting: younger maternal age at delivery and lack of social support during pregnancy. Such factors could be taken into account when planning provision of services such as parenting interventions. We also established that male children were significantly more likely to be negatively parented, a novel finding which may suggest an area for future research. However the findings have to be accepted cautiously and have to be replicated, as the measures used do not have established psychometric validity and reliability data.
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