Predicting the developmental course of mother-reported monitoring across childhood and adolescence from early proactive parenting, child temperament, and parents' worries.
Year: 2007
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Change in mothers' reported monitoring and awareness of their children's activities and companions across Grades 5, 6, 8, and 11 were examined with the use of latent factor growth modeling. Proactive parenting and resistant-to-control (RTC) child temperament assessed prior to kindergarten, as well as parents' worries about their children's behavior in Grades 5 and 8, were tested as factors associated with change in monitoring over time. Higher proactive parenting, lower RTC temperament, and the mounting of a successful campaign to change their children's behavior were associated with higher monitoring scores overall. Monitoring levels decreased across time, but the rate of decline was steeper among mothers with high RTC children and slower among mothers who mounted a campaign and judged it to be effective. These findings shed light on factors contributing to continuity and change across development in a key domain of parenting.
Source: Journal of Family Psychology
Institution: Auburn University
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: G1027578382, G1103205516, G1482172399, G1865431569, PREDICTORS AND ADJUSTMENT OUTCOMES OF AFTER-SCHOOL CARE, G310682988, Optimizing Prevention of Costly Adult Outcomes, Development of Antisocial Behavior in Early Adulthood, G493472795, Development of Antisocial Behavior in Early Adulthood, Development of antisocial behavior in early adulthood, Adolescent Drug Use: Development, Prevention and Policy, G7751818272, DEVELOPMENT OF AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR
OpenAlex ID: W2158097315