Developmental Differences in Parenting Behavior: Comparing Adolescent, Emerging Adult, and Adult Mothers

Autor/inn/en	Lewin, Amy; Mitchell, Stephanie J.; Ronzio, Cynthia R.
Titel	Developmental Differences in Parenting Behavior: Comparing Adolescent, Emerging Adult, and Adult Mothers
Quelle	In: Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 59 (2013) 1, S.23-49, Artikel 2 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-930X
Schlagwörter	Age Differences; Parenting Skills; Mothers; Longitudinal Studies; Parenting Styles; Comparative Analysis; Adolescents; Early Parenthood; Adults; Young Adults; Regression (Statistics); Discipline; Fathers; Family Structure; Parent Child Relationship; Birth; Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Mother; Mutter; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Disziplin; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Geburt
Abstract	The nationally representative Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth cohort data set was used to compare parenting behaviors of adolescent mothers (less than 19 years old), emerging adult mothers (19-25 years old), and adult mothers (greater than 25 years old) when their children were 2 years old. Regression models controlling for socioeconomic differences indicate that adolescent mothers exhibited less supportiveness, sensitivity, and positive regard than emerging adult mothers, who exhibited less than adults. Adolescent and emerging adult mothers reported comparable frequencies of spanking and use of time out but significantly more than adults. Age differences in coparenting were largely accounted for by different rates of father coresidence. These finding suggest that age differences in parenting behaviors are not solely explained by sociodemographic factors, and that mothers who gave birth during the emerging adult period are a developmentally distinct group; overall, they are not as prepared for optimal parenting as older mothers but are better equipped than adolescent mothers. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10