Self-Efficacy and Parenting of High-Risk Infants: The Moderating Role of Parent Knowledge of Infant Development

Autor/inn/en	Hess, Christine Reiner; Teti, Danglas M.; Hussey-Gardner, Brenda
Titel	Self-Efficacy and Parenting of High-Risk Infants: The Moderating Role of Parent Knowledge of Infant Development
Quelle	In: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 25 (2004) 4, S.423-437 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0193-3973
DOI	10.1016/j.appdev.2004.06.002
Schlagwörter	Self Efficacy; Child Rearing; At Risk Persons; Infants; Parent Role; Child Development; Parenting Styles; Mothers; Parenting Skills; Parent Child Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Kindererziehung; Risikogruppe; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Parental role; Elternrolle; Kindesentwicklung; Mother; Mutter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung
Abstract	The present study examined the independent and joint relations of parental self-efficacy beliefs and parent knowledge of child development to maternal behavioral competence among mothers of high-risk infants. Sixty-five mothers completed questionnaires regarding parental self-efficacy and knowledge of child development and were assessed for behavioral competence during a 10-min free-play session with their infants. There were no independent contributions of parental self-efficacy or parent knowledge of development in predicting parenting competence. However, the relation between parental self-efficacy and parenting competence was moderated by parent knowledge of development. Consistent with Bandura's ["Psychol. Rev." 84 (1977) 191; "Am. Psychol." 44 (1989) 1175] formulations, parental self-efficacy and parenting competence were positively associated when parental knowledge of development was high. By contrast, parental self-efficacy beliefs and parenting competence were inversely associated when knowledge of development was low. Mothers reporting high parental self-efficacy, but low knowledge of development, were the least sensitive with their infants in play interactions, suggesting that these mothers were naively confident about their parenting abilities. Implications for designing interventions for naively confident mothers are discussed. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10