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ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2025

A Longitudinal Analysis of Mothers' Parenting Stress and Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior of Young Children on the Autism Spectrum.

Jessica Paynter, Vanessa Heng, Madonna Tucker, Stephanie Malone

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Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Jessica PaynterGriffith Institute for Educational Research, Griffith University, 58 Parklands Drive, Gold Coast Campus, Southport, QLD, 4222, Australia. j.paynter@griffith.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0130-0606
Vanessa HengSchool of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia.
Madonna TuckerAEIOU Foundation, Gold Coast, Australia.
Stephanie MaloneGriffith Institute for Educational Research, Griffith University, 58 Parklands Drive, Gold Coast Campus, Southport, QLD, 4222, Australia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We investigated longitudinal relations between internalizing, externalizing, and total behaviors that challenge in young children on the autism spectrum and mothers' parenting stress. Participants included 93 mothers of children on the autism spectrum aged 27.89-65.84 months, who completed questionnaires on maternal parenting stress, and children's internalizing (anxiety), externalizing (disruptive), and total behaviors that challenge. Data were collected on early intervention program intake and approximately one year later. Cross-sectional findings indicated small to medium effect size associations between internalizing and externalizing behavior and parenting stress. However, cross-lagged structural equation models found that neither internalizing nor externalizing behavior predicted later parenting stress, nor the reverse. Significant stability effects were found for measures of child internalizing (anxiety), externalizing (disruptive), and total behaviors, and parenting stress. Relations between behaviors that challenge and parenting stress over time were non-significant in our models that controlled for stability of behaviors and parenting stress over time. Implications for research and clinical practice, in understanding and targeting the persistence of behaviors that challenge and parenting stress, are discussed.

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Autism Spectrum DisorderChild BehaviorMother-Child RelationsMothersParentingProblem BehaviorStress, PsychologicalAdultAnxietyChildChild, PreschoolCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleASDAutisticChallenging behaviorEarly interventionLongitudinal

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PMCPMC12167325

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