Parenting during early childhood in low-income families: Variation by child gender

Autor:	Robert H. Bradley, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Natasha J. Cabrera, Gregory R. Hancock, Jacqueline D. Shannon
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Low income Variation (linguistics) Sociology and Political Science Social Psychology Home environment Anthropology Spanking Early childhood Psychology Early Head Start Depressive symptoms Developmental psychology
Zdroj:	Family Science. 3:201-214
ISSN:	1942-4639 1942-4620
Popis:	This study used saturated path models to examine whether mothers' and fathers' depressive symptoms, the conflict they experience as a couple, and the home environmental chaos forecast the quality of parenting. We also examined how child gender moderated parenting. Using data from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project (EHSRE) (n = 588), we found that mothers with high levels of depression reported spanking girls more often than boys whereas fathers who reported high couple conflict were observed to be less supportive of girls than of boys. But when the home environment was rated as highly chaotic, boys were spanked more often by fathers, and mothers were observed to be less supportive. Fathers were less intrusive and mothers were more supportive with boys but not with girls when fathers reported a high number of depressive symptoms. The findings have implications for programs aimed at improving parenting behaviors.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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