Sentences with phrase «predicted less parent»

Older child age predicted less parent control.

Not exact matches

a review of 20 years of research on fatherhood, by Charlie Lewis, Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University and published in June 2001 by Fathers Direct, NFPI and other parenting charities: · Involvement of dads with children aged 7 - 11 predicts success in exams at 16 · Where dads are involved before the age of 11, children are less likely to have a criminal record by the age of 21 · Pre-schoolers who spend more time playing with their dads are often more sociable when they enter nursery school · Nine out of ten dads attend the birth

Today, tenacious parenting still predicts success for students from middle - class or, less frequently, from impoverished households.

Both parent and child report of overall better family management practices had unadjusted associations with less substance use, but only child - report predicted substance use when both measures were considered together and use at baseline was controlled.

Some research suggests that the academic deficits associated with living with a single mother are less pronounced for black than for white children.37 One study found that growing up in a single - parent family predicted lower socioeconomic attainment among white women, white men, and black women, but not among black men.38 McLanahan and Sandefur found that white offspring from single - parent families were more likely to drop out of high school than were African American offspring from single - parent families.39 African American children may thus adjust better than white children to life in single - parent families, although the explanation for this difference is not clear.

To illustrate, Crnic et al. (2005) found that, in a longitudinal study of 125 typically developing children, cumulative major life event stress and cumulative parenting daily hassles independently predicted less maternal positivity in interaction with their 5 - year - old child.

Cumulative stress resulting from parenting daily hassles (but not major life event stress) also predicted less dyadic parent — child pleasure.

Comparing the results of the model of father - child relationships with a model of mother - child relationships, we find that poor mother - child relationships are not predicted by family climate, although adverse life events and less positive parenting are risk factors.

Treatment fidelity predicted reductions in parent - reported externalizing behavior, whereas working alliance was related to less change in problem behavior.

Additionally, a significant three - way interaction demonstrated that greater peer attachment security predicted less bullying involvement for those with lower parent attachment security (p <.05), but not for those with higher parent attachment security (p >.05).

First, Belsky et al. (1996) reported that coparents of the subgroup of boys who had become less behaviorally inhibited at 3 years than expected (from their reactivity in infancy) showed the highest level of observed unsupportive coparenting, whereas coparents of boys who had become more inhibited than expected showed the lowest levels of unsupportive behavior (note that in the same sample, higher levels of negative parenting of the father also predicted less behavior inhibition in boys; Park et al. 1997).

Of course, this body of research does not really explain why certain behaviours are problematic or stressors for parents and families.2 Moreover, parent distress may be the antecedent rather than the outcome of child behaviour problems: High parent distress is associated with less optimal parenting and more negative parent - child interaction which, in turn, predicts child behaviour problems.

The study applies an established conceptual model of parent - teen sexuality communication to extended family, which recognizes both direct talk about sex and indirect (less straightforward) sexuality communication, which predict teens» sexual beliefs and behaviors.

Previous research has shown that a less positive emotional tone in adolescents» relationships to parents, but not in their relationships to peers, predicts more of behaviour problems and substance use.

Beyond romance, the security of mothers» internal working models of attachment has been used to predict the secure or insecure category of the infant attachment formed by the mothers with their own infants.37 Research has found that parents with insecure models recall their own parents less well than other parents38, which may indicate a lack of any coherent mental representation of good parenting.

More specifically, when parents are more supportive and less authoritarian, their children's verbal and intelligence scores are higher, when examined prospectively.12, 13 Similarly, small to medium effect sizes have been found through meta - analysis for the relationship between mother - child attachment and children's peer relations, 14 and there is evidence that attachment style predicts differing trajectories in terms of the child's emotion regulation.15

Specifically, across both the SB and comparison samples, family conflict was found to predict less adaptive parenting behaviors at T1, and more adaptive parenting change trajectories over time.

This subgroup of chronic depressed patients represents 46.4 % of the randomized sample in the parent study (cf. Keller et al. 2000), suggesting that chronically depressed individuals are less likely to be married than one would predict based on marital status rates in the United States population (U.S. Census 1997).

General indices regarding mental health of mothers have been associated with their children's sleep, and less well - organized sleep patterns have been noted in children from poorly functioning families.113) Mothers of children with sleep disturbances exhibited much higher psychological stress than did controls, obtaining increased scores on all factors of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ).114) Children's sleep quality significantly predicted that of their mothers, with maternal sleep quality associated with stress and fatigue.115) Moreover, infants of mothers with low levels of depression and anxiety were more likely to recover from sleep problems than those with high levels of depression and anxiety after controlling for the influence of attachment patterns.116) Sleep disturbances in early childhood were positively related to negative maternal perceptions of their child, 117) potentially interfering with the development of beneficial parent - child interactions.

Finally, longitudinal analyses revealed that higher levels of parenting stress at T1 predicted less adaptive parenting changes over time among fathers in the SB group.

In contrast with fertility, the relationship between women's neuroticism and child quality seems to be less context - specific: Neuroticism in women predicts poorer child condition both in the studied population and in modern settings where high neuroticism has been associated with inadequate parenting practices and the creation of a stressful family environment (37).

Each of these three traditional patterns of attachment are considered to represent organized strategies for dealing with the stress of separation from the parent in a strange environment (Main, 1990), although attachment to the mother has repeatedly been found to predict less favorable outcomes than does secure attachment in later childhood (see Cassidy and Berlin, 1994, and Main, 1995, for an overview of the foregoing studies).

As with depressed mothers, authors found less synchronous parent - child interactions among psychotic mothers [63]; and (6) In terms of attachment styles, synchrony during interactions (high vs. low) predicted children's profiles (secure vs. insecure)[53], [83].