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Parenting Behaviors and Child Externalizing: A Short-Term Investigation of Directionality

Auteurs: Anne C. Fletcher, Carol A. Johnston

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Child and Family Studies | Uitgave 10/2016

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Abstract

Children (N = 404) provided data during 3rd and 4th grades concerning their mothers’ use of punitive discipline and yielding to coercion. Teachers provided data regarding their perceptions of children’s externalizing behaviors at school. We tested a cross-lagged model examining parental disciplinary behaviors as predictors of child externalizing behavior, as well as child externalizing behaviors as a predictor of parental disciplinary behaviors. For boys and for girls, there was over-time stability in all three variables of interest. For boys only, more externalizing behaviors in Grade 3 predicted greater use of punitive discipline by parents and more parental yielding to coercion in Grade 4, over and above Grade 3 levels of these parenting variables. The reverse direction of effects was not observed.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Parenting Behaviors and Child Externalizing: A Short-Term Investigation of Directionality
Auteurs
Anne C. Fletcher
Carol A. Johnston
Publicatiedatum
04-07-2016
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Child and Family Studies / Uitgave 10/2016
Print ISSN: 1062-1024
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2843
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-016-0467-9