Young Mothers' Play with Their Toddlers: Individual Variability as a Function of Psychosocial Factors

Autor/inn/en	Driscoll, Joan Riley; Easterbrooks, M. Ann
Titel	Young Mothers' Play with Their Toddlers: Individual Variability as a Function of Psychosocial Factors
Quelle	In: Infant and Child Development, 16 (2007) 6, S.649-670 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1522-7219
DOI	10.1002/icd.515
Schlagwörter	Play; Mothers; Child Rearing; Toddlers; Parent Child Relationship; Multivariate Analysis; Parenting Styles; Individual Characteristics; Observation; Attention; Affective Behavior; Emotional Response; Depression (Psychology); Child Abuse; Family Violence; Social Support Groups; Self Esteem; Young Adults; Adolescents; Conflict Tactics Scale; Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spiel; Mother; Mutter; Kindererziehung; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Multivariate Analyse; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Beobachtung; Aufmerksamkeit; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Emotionales Verhalten; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher
Abstract	There is no one style of parenting which characterizes young mothers as a group. In addition, life circumstances play an important role in shaping maternal behaviour. The aim of this study was to identify patterns of maternal play behaviour and contextual (social and personal) factors associated with these different patterns. In this study, 107 young mothers were observed at home during play with their toddlers; maternal behaviour was coded for joint attention (shared focus of mother and toddler attention) and emotional availability (e.g. sensitivity, intrusiveness, hostility). Mothers reported on aspects of their childhood history and current personal functioning and social support. A person-centred analytic approach, using cluster analysis, revealed three distinct groups of maternal play behaviour: (1) "sensitive-engaged," (2) "inconsistent-directive," and (3) "intrusive-prohibitive". Multivariate analyses revealed that contextual factors in mothers' lives (e.g. childhood abuse, depressive symptomatology, partner violence, social support, and parenting self-confidence) were differentially associated with parenting clusters. (Contains 8 tables.) (As Provided).
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