Examining the bidirectional relationships between maternal intrusiveness and child internalizing symptoms in a community sample: A longitudinal study from infancy to middle childhood
| Autor: | Kristy Benoit Allen, Hannah Hunter, Martha Ann Bell, Julia Jaekel, Ran Liu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Intrusiveness
Longitudinal study Future studies media_common.quotation_subject education Mothers CBCL Middle childhood Article Developmental psychology Humans Longitudinal Studies Prospective Studies Toddler Child health care economics and organizations media_common Parenting Infant Mother-Child Relations Maternal education Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Child Preschool Female Psychology Autonomy |
| Zdroj: | Depress Anxiety |
| ISSN: | 1520-6394 1091-4269 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/da.23207 |
| Popis: | Background Myriad parenting behaviors have been linked to the development of internalizing disorders in children. Intrusive parenting, characterized by autonomy-limiting behaviors that hold the parent's agenda above that of the child, may uniquely contribute to the development of child internalizing symptoms. The current study investigates bidirectional effects between maternal intrusiveness and internalizing symptomology from infancy to middle childhood. Methods Participants were a community sample of 218 infant-mother dyads assessed at 7 time points (5 and 10 months; 2, 3, 4, 6, and 9 years). Maternal intrusiveness was behaviorally coded at all timepoints; mothers completed the CBCL for their child at ages 3, 4, 6, and 9 years. The empirically derived Internalizing subscale was used to assess child internalizing symptoms. Results About 1/3 to ½ of mothers displayed maternal intrusiveness across infancy and childhood, with the exception of ages 2-3 years, when an increase in the number of mothers displaying intrusiveness was observed. A cross-lagged panel model showed that intrusiveness and internalizing symptoms were concurrently related at 3 years, but this relationship disappeared when we controlled for maternal education. There was no evidence of prospective relationships between our constructs. Conclusions Mothers in a community-based sample may increase intrusiveness in the toddler and early preschool years as children strive for more autonomy. Intrusiveness may play more of a maintenance role in child internalizing symptoms, and associations between maternal intrusiveness and child internalizing symptomatology may be weaker than hypothesized, varying by maternal education. Suggestions for assessing intrusive parenting in future studies are discussed. |
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