Family Stress, Parenting Styles, and Behavioral Adjustment in Preschool-Age Adopted Chinese Girls

Autor/inn/en	Tan, Tony Xing; Camras, Linda A.; Deng, Huihua; Zhang, Minghao; Lu, Zuhong
Titel	Family Stress, Parenting Styles, and Behavioral Adjustment in Preschool-Age Adopted Chinese Girls
Quelle	In: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27 (2012) 1, S.128-136 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-2006
DOI	10.1016/j.ecresq.2011.04.002
Schlagwörter	Check Lists; Social Problems; Behavior Problems; Mothers; Parenting Styles; Child Rearing; Child Behavior; Parent Child Relationship; Measures (Individuals); Adoption; Foreign Countries; Preschool Children; Adjustment (to Environment); Stress Variables; Females; China; Child Behavior Checklist + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Checkliste; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Mother; Mutter; Kindererziehung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Messdaten; Ausland; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Weibliches Geschlecht
Abstract	This study seeks to extend previous research on family stress, parenting, and child adjustment to families with adopted Chinese children. In doing so, we also seek to strengthen inferences regarding the experiential underpinnings of previously obtained relationships among these variables by determining if they also occur in families where parents and children are not biologically related. Participants were families of 133 preschool-age adopted Chinese girls (M[subscript age] = 5.2 years, SD = 0.7; M[subscript age at adoption] = 12.8 months, SD = 4.1). Data on family stress, parenting styles, and children's behavioral adjustment were collected from the adoptive mothers with the Social Problem Questionnaire (SPQ), Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire (PSDQ), and Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) respectively. Results showed that adoptive mothers reported relatively mild family stress, frequent authoritative parenting, and few behavior problems in their children. Nonetheless, family stress, authoritarian and permissive parenting styles positively correlated with children's behavioral problems. Finally, authoritarian parenting mediated the effect of non-child-related family stress (NCR-stress) on the adopted Chinese girls' CBCL internalizing and overall problems, even after controlling for corresponding CBCL scores from 2 years earlier. Our results showed that the overall pattern of relationships found in non-adoptive families is also seen in families with adopted Chinese children. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10