Not exact matches
Parent - child
interaction among Latina
adolescent mothers: The role
of family and social support.
In Denver,
mothers who received home visits had more sensitive
mother - infant
interactions and higher HOME scores than
mothers who did not.80 Home visiting, however, had no significant effects on different aspects
of the home environment in Elmira or Memphis.81 One possible explanation for this difference is that the majority
of mothers at the Elmira and Memphis sites were
adolescents, whereas the Denver
mothers were more diverse in age, suggesting stronger effects for older
mothers than for younger
mothers with respect to the quality
of the home environment.
The primary studies conducted under the aegis
of the
Adolescent Study Program include the Cross-Sectional
Adolescent Girls» Study, the Early Adolescence Study, the Late Adolescence Study, the
Mother — Daughter
Interactions Study, the Bone Density Study, and the Girls» Health and Development Project.
Depression, reflected in prolonged sadness and feelings
of despair, is associated with less engaged, stimulating and proactive parenting, and with a range
of social and cognitive problems in young children during infancy, toddlerhood and the preschool years.4 Because young children are so dependent on their
mothers for cognitive stimulation and social
interaction, they are more likely to be vulnerable to the impact
of maternal depression than school - age children or
adolescents.
Rather, the family context — more specifically the
mother - child relationship, their level
of interaction, and the
mother's attitudes toward and discussion
of sex — is associated with
adolescent sexual debut.
My colleagues and I have focused our research program on parent support
of vulnerable groups and have found, through the use
of randomized control trials, that systematic interventions directed at parenting behaviours improve parental contingency in low - income parents and in
adolescent mothers.12, 13 Similarly, we have found that systematic intervention on family problem - solving behaviour, what Trivette and Dunst call participatory help - giving practice, also improves contingency
of parent - child
interactions.14
She is also the principal investigator
of a complementary study within the SHM project, funded by the William T. Grant Foundation, that uses a daily diary measurement approach to catalog everyday family
interactions among
mothers, fathers, and
adolescent children.
Ongoing longitudinal work, in our laboratory and others, will be better able to address the notion
of causality and
interaction between
mothers and
adolescents over time.
The interrelations
of maternal attachment representations,
mother — infant
interaction in the home, and attachment relationships were studied in 99
adolescent mothers and their 12 - month - old infants.
The quality
of the
adolescent mother - grandmother relationship, measured by
adolescent report (two factors from NRI) and observations
of mother - grandmother
interaction (four factors from SIRQ), was entered on step 5 in a stepwise fashion.
Research on depression has found that maternal depression was associated with more negative and rigid dyadic
interactions of mothers and their non-depressed
adolescents (Connell et al. 2011).
In a community sample
of mother -
adolescent dyads, less emotional flexibility
of mother - child dyads during conflict
interactions in early adolescence predicted more anxiety and depressive symptoms
of adolescents 5 years later (Van der Giessen et al. 2015).
The
interaction was not statistically significant, t (145) = 1.01, p >.30, β =.08 for
adolescent reports
of parental responsibility and self - efficacy.1 However, the
interaction was statistically significant for both
mothers», t (145) = 2.92, p =.00, β =.27, and fathers» reports, t (143) = 2.14, p <.05, β =.18.
Significant
interaction terms were plotted using procedures recommended by Cohen and Cohen (1983) to compare differences in the relation between infant temperament and
adolescent mother - grandmother relationship in the prediction
of parenting.
Despite the differences in parenting styles, we only found
interaction effects between paternal parenting styles, but not between controlling or neglectful parenting styles
of the
mother with socio - emotional status in childhood on mental health in
adolescents when assessed across the entire sample.
[jounal] Sheeber, L. / 2000 / Regulation
of negative affect during
mother - child problem - solving
interactions:
Adolescent depressive status and family processes / Journal
of Abnormal Child Psychology 28: 467 ~ 479
Given the high risk among young migraineurs
of developing an insecure attachment style and anxiety symptoms, which are known to impact on children /
adolescents migraine severity (14), special attention should be paid to maternal alexithymic traits and
mother — child
interaction.
These findings suggest that intrusive parenting has important implications for subsequent parent —
adolescent interactions and that similar patterns may characterize some aspects
of mother - and father —
adolescent relationships.