Developmental Transitions in Youth Behavioral Opposition and Maternal Beliefs in Social Ecological Context

Autor/inn/en	Ehrensaft, Miriam K.; Cohen, Patricia; Chen, Henian; Berenson, Kathy
Titel	Developmental Transitions in Youth Behavioral Opposition and Maternal Beliefs in Social Ecological Context
Quelle	In: Journal of Child and Family Studies, 16 (2007) 4, S.577-588 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1062-1024
DOI	10.1007/s10826-006-9108-z
Schlagwörter	Mothers; One Parent Family; Child Rearing; Parent Child Relationship; Birth Order; Developmental Stages; Behavior Problems; Antisocial Behavior; Parent Attitudes; Social Influences; Age Differences; Longitudinal Studies; Preadolescents; Young Adults; Socioeconomic Influences; Low Income Groups; Racial Differences; Gender Differences; Whites; Minority Groups; Context Effect + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Single parent family; Ein-Eltern-Familie; Kindererziehung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Geburtenfolge; Elternverhalten; Sozialer Einfluss; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Rassenunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; White; Weißer; Ethnische Minderheit
Abstract	We investigated age-based changes in mothers' complaints about offspring behavioral opposition, and offspring reports of opposition in a prospective longitudinal design (N = 821). Maternal complaints declined from pre-adolescence to early adulthood, but more slowly in low socioeconomic status (SES) and single-parent families. Mothers complained more about first- than later-born children, but showed no average differences for offspring gender, race, SES, or single parent status. Complaints covaried with youth-reported opposition, but effects involving SES, single-parent status, and birth order remained significant after opposition was controlled; this finding is interpreted to reflect social contextual differences in maternal beliefs. Youth opposition was stable to age 16, then decreased; higher levels were associated with earlier birth order and low SES among European-Americans. Our results have implications for parenting interventions, indicating that parents may benefit from education about the normative, gradual increase in concordance between their own expectations and their child's behavior from early to late adolescence. Further, parenting interventions may be strengthened by actively attending to social contextual factors that shape parental belief systems and values. (As Provided).
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