Current Search:   Middleton, Melissa (x)

View All Items

  • CSV Spreadsheet
(1 - 2 of 2)
MEDIATING EFFECTS OF PARENTS' ATTRIBUTIONS IN THE RELATIONSHIPBETWEEN CHILDREN'S TEMPERAMENT AND PARENTING STRESS
Title
MEDIATING EFFECTS OF PARENTS' ATTRIBUTIONS IN THE RELATIONSHIPBETWEEN CHILDREN'S TEMPERAMENT AND PARENTING STRESS.
Creator
Middleton, Melissa, Renk, Kimberly, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
To examine the relationships among children's temperament, parents' attributions, parenting stress, and children's behavior problems, the current study investigates the responses of parents who are raising children between the ages of 3- and 6-years. Each parent completed the Dimensions of Temperament Scale-Revised for Children (Windle & Learner, 1986), the Parenting Locus of Control Scale – Short Form (Rayfield, Eyberg, Boggs, & Roberts, 1995a), the Parent Attribution Test ...
Show moreTo examine the relationships among children's temperament, parents' attributions, parenting stress, and children's behavior problems, the current study investigates the responses of parents who are raising children between the ages of 3- and 6-years. Each parent completed the Dimensions of Temperament Scale-Revised for Children (Windle & Learner, 1986), the Parenting Locus of Control Scale – Short Form (Rayfield, Eyberg, Boggs, & Roberts, 1995a), the Parent Attribution Test (Bugental, 1998), the Child Trait Rating Scale (Sacco, Johnson, & Tenzer, 1993), the Parenting Stress Index-Short Form (Abidin, 1995), and the Child Behavior Checklist (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2000, 2001). Using correlational and regression analyses, results of this study suggest that difficult child temperament is related positively and significantly to an external locus of parental control, less positive child trait attributions, and higher levels of parenting stress, whereas easier child temperament is related to an internal locus of parental control, more positive child trait attributions, and lower levels of parenting stress. Although different patterns of findings occur for mothers and fathers, regression results indicate generally that parents' attributions mediate the relationship between children's temperament and parenting stress. Such findings suggest that interventions would benefit from targeting parents' attributions of their children as well as the relationships among parents' attributions, parenting stress, other parenting characteristics, and children's behavior problems.
Show less
Date Issued
2009
Identifier
CFE0002721, ucf:48172
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0002721
Match Between Parent and Child Temperament: Implications for Parenting Behaviors and Children's Behavior Problems
Title
Match Between Parent and Child Temperament: Implications for Parenting Behaviors and Children's Behavior Problems.
Creator
Middleton, Melissa, Renk, Kimberly, Beidel, Deborah, Sims, Valerie, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
To examine the relationships among the match between parent and child temperament, parenting behaviors, parenting stress, and young children's behavior problems, the current study investigated the responses of mothers who are raising children between the ages of 3- and 5-years. Mothers completed the Dimensions of Temperament Scale-Revised for Children (Windle (&) Learner, 1986), the Dimensions of Temperament Scale-Revised for Adults (Windle (&) Learner, 1986), the Alabama Parenting...
Show moreTo examine the relationships among the match between parent and child temperament, parenting behaviors, parenting stress, and young children's behavior problems, the current study investigated the responses of mothers who are raising children between the ages of 3- and 5-years. Mothers completed the Dimensions of Temperament Scale-Revised for Children (Windle (&) Learner, 1986), the Dimensions of Temperament Scale-Revised for Adults (Windle (&) Learner, 1986), the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire-Preschool Revision (Clerkin, Marks, Policaro, (&) Halperin, 2007), the Maternal Emotional Styles Questionnaire (Lagac(&)#233;-S(&)#233;guin (&) Coplan, 2005), the Parenting Stress Index-Short Form (Abidin, 1995), and the Child Behavior Checklist (Achenbach (&) Rescorla, 2000, 2001). Using cluster analyses, results of this study revealed two temperament clusters (i.e., Difficult Temperament and Easy Temperament) between mothers and their young children. Results revealed that mothers in the difficult temperament cluster report using less positive parenting, less emotion-coaching parenting, and more negative/inconsistent parenting. They also report a higher level of parenting stress. Additionally, results indicated that, when all variables were examined together, only mothers' ratings of parenting stress contribute significantly to their young children's internalizing behavior problems and only mothers' ratings of parenting stress and punitive parenting behavior contribute to their young children's externalizing behavior problems. Further, results also revealed that parenting stress fully mediates the relationship between the mother-child temperament match and young children's behavior problems. Such findings suggested that interventions would benefit from targeting parents' own temperamental characteristics and how these characteristics fit with the characteristics of their young children as well as from addressing the role that this match plays in predicting parenting stress and young children's emotional and behavioral problems.
Show less
Date Issued
2012
Identifier
CFE0004206, ucf:49030
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004206