Subjective and objective measures of parent-child relationship dysfunction, child separation distress, and joint attention
Autor: | Daniel S. Schechter, Claudia Hinojosa, Charles H. Zeanah, Erica Willheim, Michael M. Myers, Jaime McCaw, Kimberly Scholfield-Kleinman, J. Blake Turner |
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Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Adult Male Joint attention Adolescent Separation (statistics) Video Recording Mothers Dysfunctional family Developmental psychology ddc:616.89 Surveys and Questionnaires Humans Attention Maternal Behavior Mothers/*psychology Mother-Child Relations Subjective report Infant Stress Psychological/*psychology Middle Aged Object Attachment Interpersonal violence Maternal perception Psychiatry and Mental health Distress Institutional repository Child Preschool Regression Analysis Female Cues Psychology Stress Psychological |
Zdroj: | Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes, Vol. 73, No 2 (2010) pp. 130-144 |
ISSN: | 1943-281X 0033-2747 |
Popis: | The literature suggests an adverse impact of maternal stress related to interpersonal violence on parent-child interaction. The current study investigated associations between a mother's self-reported parent-child relationship dysfunction and what she does in response to her child's cues. It also examined whether maternal perception of parent-child dysfunctional interaction and child behavior when stressed by separation, along with maternal behavior in response to child distress, predicted impaired joint attention (JA) during play. Participant mothers (n = 74) and their children ages 12-48 months were recruited from community pediatrics clinics and completed two videotaped visits. After correlations, multiple linear regression was applied to find the best model fit that would predict outcomes of interest. We found that both maternal subjective report of self-reported parent-child relationship dysfunction and observed child separation distress together predicted atypical maternal behavior. Self-reported parent-child relationship dysfunction, observed atypical maternal behavior, and child separation distress combined significantly predicted less time spent in joint attention during play. Maternal posttraumatic stress predicted less maternal availability after separation stress. Clinicians should thus carefully assess and listen to parents' communication of disturbances in their relationship with their young child. Left untreated, parent-child relationship dysfunction may well lead to impairment in learning and social-emotional development. |
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