Understanding Parenting Stress in Adoptive Parents: A Longitudinal Multilevel Study of Parents' Self-Criticism, Child Negative Emotionality, and Child Age at Placement.

Autor: Fiore S; Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.; Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium., Luyten P; Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.; Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, UK., Vliegen N; Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium., Soenens B; Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of personality [J Pers] 2024 Nov 14. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Nov 14.
DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12993
Abstrakt: Introduction: Research on parenting stress in adoptive parents during the early years post-placement reveals significant variability, yet few studies examine both parent- and child-related factors. This study investigates the role of the personality dimension of self-criticism and perceived negative child emotionality in relation to parenting stress during the first four years after transnational adoption. Additionally, it explores the moderating effect of child age at placement, a key factor associated with early adversity.
Methods: Drawing upon a longitudinal five-wave dataset in the first 4 years after the child arrived in the adoptive family, this study used multi-informant data of 96 adoptive mothers and fathers of transnationally adopted children (mean child age at placement = 13.48 months). Data were analyzed using a multilevel structural equation modeling approach.
Results: Parents' self-criticism was positively associated with parenting stress at the between-parent level. At the within-parent level, year-to-year fluctuations in both parents' self-criticism and perceived child's negative emotionality were positively associated with corresponding fluctuations in parenting stress. Child age at placement did not moderate any of these associations.
Conclusions: Overall, this study yielded convincing evidence for the dynamic nature of parenting stress in the first years after child placement, the role of parental self-criticism, and the child's perceived negative emotionality herein.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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