Parenting in Times of War: A Meta-Analysis and Qualitative Synthesis of War Exposure, Parenting, and Child Adjustment
| Autor: | Suzanne Jak, Patty Leijten, Geertjan Overbeek, Hend Eltanamly |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Preventive Youth Care (RICDE, FMG), Methods and Statistics (RICDE, FMG) |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Parents
medicine.medical_specialty Health (social science) Adolescent Poison control Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health War Exposure 03 medical and health sciences Child Rearing 0302 clinical medicine Injury prevention medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 030212 general & internal medicine Review Manuscripts Child Psychiatry Applied Psychology child development Parenting 05 social sciences Infant Newborn Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Infant Human factors and ergonomics Child development Mental health humanities trauma Child Preschool Quality of Life Psychology mental health 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 22(1), 147-160. SAGE Publications Ltd Trauma, Violence & Abuse |
| ISSN: | 1552-8324 1524-8380 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1524838019833001 |
| Popis: | This mixed-methods systematic review and meta-analysis sheds more light on the role parenting practices play in children’s adjustment after war exposure. Specifically, we quantitatively examined how war exposure shapes parenting behavior, and whether parenting behavior explains some of the well-known associations between war exposure and children’s adjustment. In addition, we meta-synthesized the qualitative evidence answering when and why parenting practices might change for war-affected families. We searched nine electronic databases and contacted experts in the field for relevant studies published until March 2018, identifying 4,147 unique publications that were further screened by title and abstract, resulting in 158 publications being fully screened. By running a meta-analytic structural equation model (MASEM) with 38 quantitative studies (N = 54,372, Mage = 12.00, SDage = 3.54), we found that war-exposed parents showed less warmth and more harshness towards their children, which partly mediated the association between war exposure and child adjustment, i.e., more post-traumatic stress symptoms, depression and anxiety, social problems, externalizing behavior, and lower positive outcomes. War exposure was not associated with parents’ exercise of behavioral control. Through meta-synthesizing ten qualitative studies (N = 1,042, age range = 0-18), we found that the nature of war-related trauma affected parenting differently. That is, parents showed harshness, hostility, inconsistency and less warmth in highly dangerous settings, and more warmth and overprotection when only living under threat. We conclude that it is not only how much but also what families have seen that shape parenting in times of war. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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