Are Persistent Early Onset Child Conduct Problems Predicted by the Trajectories and Initial Levels of Discipline Practices?

Autor/inn/en	Lorber, Michael F.; Slep, Amy M. Smith
Titel	Are Persistent Early Onset Child Conduct Problems Predicted by the Trajectories and Initial Levels of Discipline Practices?
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 51 (2015) 8, S.1048-1061 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0039421
Schlagwörter	Children; Child Development; Behavior Problems; Child Behavior; Discipline; Questionnaires; Parenting Styles; Punishment; Mothers; Fathers; Child Rearing; Responses; Age Differences; Hypothesis Testing; Check Lists; Structural Equation Models; Correlation; Probability; Regression (Statistics); New York; Conflict Tactics Scale; Child Behavior Checklist + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Kindesentwicklung; Disziplin; Fragebogen; Bestrafung; Mother; Mutter; Kindererziehung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Checkliste; Korrelation; Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung; Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	In the present investigation we focused on 2 broad sets of questions: Do parental overreactivity, laxness, and corporal punishment show evidence of normative change in early to middle childhood? Are persistently elevated child conduct problems (CPs) associated with deviations from normative changes in, as well as high initial levels of, discipline practices? Four hundred fifty-three couples with 3- to 7-year-old children were recruited via random digit dialing and studied at 3 annual assessments. Parents completed questionnaire measures of all study constructs. Normative declines were found in maternal corporal punishment and laxness. Maternal overreactivity showed a normative increase. For fathers, only corporal punishment showed evidence of a normative decline. The declines in mothers' corporal punishment and laxness, and in fathers' corporal punishment, exhibited little variability. In contrast, the trajectories of maternal overreactivity were significantly variable. High-increasing CPs were more common than low-stable CPs in families with greater increases in maternal overreactivity. High-increasing CPs were also more common in families with greater initial maternal overreactivity and corporal punishment. Yet in no case did discipline practices significantly distinguish children on high-increasing versus high-decreasing CPs trajectories. In tests of alternative models, child effects were found for all parenting variables, suggesting reciprocal causation. The findings are discussed relative to etiological models of CPs and implications for preventive intervention. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01