The Development of Parenting Efficacy among New Mothers and Fathers

Autor/inn/en	Leerkes, Esther M.; Burney, Regan V.
Titel	The Development of Parenting Efficacy among New Mothers and Fathers
Quelle	In: Infancy, 12 (2007) 1, S.45-67 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1525-0008
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Child Rearing; Fathers; Predictor Variables; Self Esteem; Individual Characteristics; Parenting Skills; Correlation; Context Effect; Infants; Personality Traits; Social Influences; Gender Differences; Parent Participation; Social Support Groups; Affective Behavior; Parent Child Relationship; Depression (Psychology); Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale; Rothbart Infant Behavior Questionnaire + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Kindererziehung; Prädiktor; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Korrelation; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Individual characteristics; Sozialer Einfluss; Geschlechterkonflikt; Elternmitwirkung; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung
Abstract	Predictors of prenatal and postnatal parenting efficacy were examined in a sample of 115 primiparous mothers and 73 fathers in an effort to examine the association between preexisting parental characteristics and prenatal efficacy and the association between prenatal characteristics and postnatal efficacy when aspects of the current parenting context are taken into account. The most robust predictors of maternal postnatal efficacy included both prenatal efficacy, which significantly predicted postnatal efficacy independent of all other predictors including the current parenting context, and perceived infant temperamental reactivity as both a main effect and as buffered by social support. This was not the case for fathers, whose postnatal efficacy was primarily a function of their amount of involvement in parenting tasks and social support. The differential predictors of mother and father efficacy as well as their implications for future research are discussed. (Contains 4 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10