Paternal Activation as a Protective Factor against Problem Behaviors in Early Childhood.
Activation parenting
Early childhood
Externalizing
Father
Internalizing
Longitudinal
Journal
Research on child and adolescent psychopathology
ISSN: 2730-7174
Titre abrégé: Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101773609
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
22 Feb 2024
22 Feb 2024
Historique:
accepted:
15
02
2024
medline:
22
2
2024
pubmed:
22
2
2024
entrez:
22
2
2024
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
Activation parenting includes behaviors that challenge children to approach novel situations, explore their environments, and take physical and socioemotional risks through a balance of encouragement and limit-setting. Although components of activation parenting have been linked to lower levels of children's problem behaviors, comprehensive measures of activation parenting and longitudinal research on families from low socioeconomic backgrounds are lacking. The goal of the present study was to test associations between paternal activation parenting at age 3 and children's externalizing and internalizing problems at age 5 in a sample of low-income, ethnically diverse fathers. Participating fathers (N = 171; 9% Black, 47% white, 8% Latinx; mean household income = $25,145) and their children (51% female) were drawn from the Early Steps Multisite Study. Activation parenting during a teaching task at child age 3 was associated with lower levels of internalizing problems at age 5 and decreases in externalizing problems from baseline (age 2). Implications of the current findings are presented for future research on associations between activation parenting and child problem behaviors, including the potential for the development of prevention and intervention programs.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38386233
doi: 10.1007/s10802-024-01179-9
pii: 10.1007/s10802-024-01179-9
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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Subventions
Organisme : NIDA NIH HHS
ID : DA016110
Pays : United States
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© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
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