Sentences with phrase «behavior of adolescent mothers»

Much more work is needed to understand the parenting behavior of adolescent mothers, so we can develop intervention programs to promote their development and to prevent behavioral and developmental problems among their children.

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The quality of adolescents» friendships: Associations with mothers» interpersonal relationships, attachments to parents and friends, and prosocial behaviors.

Articles by him have been published in The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, Young Children, Contemporary Pediatrics, the Journal of Psychohistory, Mothering Magazine, New Beginnings, Working Mother and other national and foreign publications.

Additionally, adolescents in single - mother and single - father families are at higher risk of risky behaviors, victimization, and mental distress compared to those in two - parent families.

For instance, in one recent study, adolescents who had been coached by their mothers showed a pattern of decreasing behavior problems over time (Shortt et al 2010).

The survey consisted of home interviews of 620 Jewish adolescents (aged 14 - 17) and their mothers, assessing socio - demographic characteristics and mental health, including suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

For instance, in one recent study, adolescents who had been coached by their mothers showed a pattern of decreasing behavior problems over time (Shortt et al 2010).

In grade 11, mothers reported that adolescents who had experienced early maltreatment had levels of aggression, anxiety / depression, dissociation, delinquent behaviors, PTSD, social problems, thought problems, and social withdrawal that were on average twice as high as those of their nonmaltreated counterparts.

Moreover, it might be that specifically after the conclusion of «external control» by the therapists, mothers with an insecure - anxious attachment style13 might fear that the weight - control behaviors threaten their relationship with the child / adolescent.

The effects of maltreatment on all of these psychological and behavioral problems as reported by adolescents» mothers could not be explained away by other risk factors (with the lone exception of delinquent behavior).

Christine Buchanan, Eleanor Maccoby, and Sanford Dornbusch found that adolescents had fewer emotional and behavior problems following divorce if their mothers remarried than if they cohabited with a partner.31 Similarly, two studies of African American families found that children were better off in certain respects if they lived with stepfathers than with their mother's cohabiting partners.32 In contrast, Susan Brown found no significant differences between children in married and cohabiting stepfamilies.33 Although these data suggest that children may be better off if single mothers marry their partners rather than cohabit, the small number of studies on this topic makes it difficult to draw firm conclusions.

The Effects of Divorced Mothers» Dating Behaviors and Sexual Attitudes on the Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors of Their Adolescent Children

Our results indicated that mothers» dating behaviors directly influenced the sexual behaviors of adolescent boys, and indirectly influenced adolescent girls» sexuality by affecting their sexual attitudes.

Early Intervention Program for Adolescent Mothers (EIP) Child Trends (2010) Explores the Early Intervention Program for Adolescent Mothers as an intense home - visiting program by nurses extending through pregnancy and 1 year after delivery and is designed to improve the health of pregnant adolescents through promoting positive maternal behaviors.

[7] Although recent studies have indicated that maternal warmth, praise, and quality of relationship are associated with reductions of behavior problems in adolescents and adults with autism, and that maternal criticisms are associated with maladaptive behaviors and symptoms, these ideas are distinct from the refrigerator mother hypothesis.

We investigated the influence of effective parenting behaviors (father and mother reports) and deviant peer association (adolescent reports) on subsequent young adolescent conduct problems (teacher reports) during grades 7 — 9, using structural equation modeling.

Young adolescents in the clinical range on internalizing, externalizing, and both internalizing and externalizing behavior problems, as well as youth in the normal range on both types of problems, were identified separately using adolescents» self - reports and mothers» reports of behavior problems.

The videotape served as a stimulus for discussion, supplemented by sessions of the home - based curriculum that stressed parent — infant communication, strategies for managing infant behavior, and negotiation skills that adolescent mothers could use in decision - making situations with their own mothers.

Research undertaken by WCW scholars that examines adolescents» sexual behavior in relation to discord with their mother's religiosity, is featured in the October 2013 Journal of Primary Prevention.

Research undertaken by scholars at the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) that examines adolescents» sexual behavior in relation to discord with their mother's religiosity, is featured in the October 2013 Journal of Primary Prevention.

The perceived levels of behavior of mothers and fathers did not interact with one another in predicting adolescent adjustment.

Improvements included a reduction of adolescents» drug use by more than 50 percent, a decrease in adolescent psychic symptomology, a decrease in adolescent negative family role task behavior, an increase in positive behavior within the family, and an improvement in adolescent communication between mother and father.

The results generalize across early and late adolescence and across mothers» and adolescents» reports of behavior problems.

Adolescent problem behavior: The effect of peers and the moderating role of father absence and the mother - child relationship.

The relationships among the parenting attitudes of mothers, fathers, and adolescents as mediated by the adolescent's perceptions of their parent's parenting behaviors.

In terms of behavior problems, 19 % of adolescents and 24 % of mothers reported clinically significant levels (T score ≥ 60) of internalizing problems, and 3 % of adolescents and 13 % of mothers reported clinically significant levels of externalizing problems.

It is important to note that many of the demographic factors were confounded in our sample (e.g., 64 % of the non-White mothers in our sample were single), and it is therefore difficult to tease out the effects of race / ethnicity and marital status on parenting behaviors and adolescent adjustment.

In this line of results, recent studies (García - Linares et al. 2011; Nishikawa et al. 2010) have asserted that the father's behavior toward the adolescent is as important to the child's well - being as the mother's.

One study explored relations between parent and adolescent aggressive behaviors in a nonclinical and non-court-referred sample by gathering mother, father, and adolescent reports of various behaviors over 8 years (i.e., at ages 10, 11, 12, 15, and 18)(Margolin and Baucom 2014).

The relational basis of adolescent adjustment: trajectories of mother — child interactive behaviors from infancy to adolescence shape adolescents» adaptation

The view that discrepancies between mother and adolescent reports of parental consulting reflect poor relationship quality appeared most applicable in models of positive friendship quality, somewhat applicable in models of prosocial behavior and physical victimization, and not applicable in models of loneliness.

Maternal depression and paternal history of antisocial behaviors were significant predictors and accounted for the prediction of paternal depression at child age 5 months and childhood / adolescent antisocial behaviors in mothers.

In a series of single - case studies, a mindfulness - based parenting program was found to reduce the adolescents» aggressive and disruptive behavior and to increase their compliance with the mother's requests (Singh et al. 2014).

Furthermore, future analyses of changes in mothers» and fathers» communication behaviors as well as the influence of their parenting behaviors on the adolescents» outcome with respect to both medical and psychological adaptation are necessary.

To adjust for covariates and to account for correlation between siblings (5013 unique families), we used generalized mixed models (Proc GLIMMIX) to model associations between family functioning and quality of mother - and father - adolescent relationship and adolescent weight status and weight - related behaviors.

In this large, nationwide cohort of adolescents / young adults, we observed that adolescents / young adults from families with high family functioning and high - quality of mother - and father - adolescent relationships were less likely to have overweight or obesity and less likely to engage in unhealthful weight - related behaviors, although the pattern of these associations differed by sex.

Perhaps the fact that fathers did report reduced parenting stress after mindfulness training, and not mothers, may have influenced their perception of improvement in the adolescents» behaviors.

The aim of the present investigation was to examine mother - child synchrony and its link to early adolescents» self - esteem and prosocial behavior.

[jounal] Ducharme, J. / 2002 / Attachment security with mother and father: Associations with adolescents» reports of interpersonal behavior with parents and peers / Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 19 (2): 203 ~ 231

Externalizing and Internalizing Behaviors Among Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: Contribution of Adolescents» Attachment to Mothers and Negative Affect.

Effects of Gene × Attachment Interaction on Adolescents» Emotion Regulation and Aggressive Hostile Behavior Towards their Mothers during a Computer Game.

However, paired sample t tests revealed that, at pretest, fathers and mothers did not differ significantly in reports of parenting stress, or any of the adolescent symptoms or problem behaviors.