Disciplinary Practices, Metaparenting, and the Quality of Parent--Child Relationships in African-American, Mexican-American, and European-American Mothers

Autor/inn/en	Holden, George W.; Hawk, Carol Kozak; Smith, Margaret M.; Singh, Jimmy P.; Ashraf, Rose
Titel	Disciplinary Practices, Metaparenting, and the Quality of Parent--Child Relationships in African-American, Mexican-American, and European-American Mothers
Quelle	In: International Journal of Behavioral Development, 41 (2017) 4, S.482-490 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0165-0254
DOI	10.1177/0165025416687414
Schlagwörter	Discipline; Child Rearing; Parent Child Relationship; African Americans; Mexican Americans; Whites; Mothers; Social Cognition; Children; Punishment; Racial Differences; Statistical Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Disziplin; Kindererziehung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Afroamerikaner; Hispanoamerikaner; White; Weißer; Mother; Mutter; Soziale Kognition; Child; Kind; Kinder; Bestrafung; Rassenunterschied; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	Coercive responses to children's behavior are well recognized to be problematic for children's adjustment. Less well understood is how parental social cognition is linked to discipline. In this study we sought to link metaparenting--parents' thoughts about their parenting--to the use of coercive discipline. We predicted that mothers who engaged in more metaparenting, thus reflecting more deliberate parenting, would use corporal punishment less frequently and instead engage in non-coercive discipline. We also expected that mothers who engaged in more metaparenting would report closer relationships with their children. In order to assess a diverse sample, data were collected from approximately equal numbers of African-American, European-American, and Mexican-American mothers. Participants included 113 mothers with target children in three age groups, ranging from 2 to 12 years. The results indicated reports of corporal punishment as well as non-coercive discipline did not significantly differ across child sex and child age groups, but did differ significantly across race/ethnicity. Reports of frequency of metaparenting also differed across racial/ethnic groups; African-American mothers reported more metaparenting than European-American mothers on three of four subscales. Metaparenting was significantly related to reports of the mother-child relationship but in the opposite direction than predicted. Based on these results, future research directions linking parental social cognition to discipline are proposed. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01