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dc.contributor.authorZimmer-Gembeck, Melanie J
dc.contributor.authorThomas, Rae
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T13:59:10Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T13:59:10Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.modified2011-01-18T05:43:12Z
dc.identifier.issn0163-6383
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.infbeh.2010.07.004
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/35408
dc.description.abstractBecause infants and toddlers are particularly susceptible to parents' socialization efforts, the purpose of this 2-year longitudinal study (N = 4271 infants) was to forecast toddlers' competence and problems (adaptational outcomes, age M = 30 months) from parenting experiences when they were infants (age M = 9 months). Using structural equation modeling and data from a nationally representative sample, parenting during infancy was important to toddlers' adaptational outcomes, with parenting warmth most strongly connected to toddler competence and parenting hostility most strongly connected to toddler problems. Additionally, toddlers' outcomes were associated with their parents' mental health symptoms, life difficulty, coping and self-efficacy when measured 2 years earlier (parent context), and parenting warmth and hostility mediated some of these associations. These pathways indicated that the infant parenting context had some spill over effect on toddlers via parental warmth and hostility. However, mediational paths were not as common as expected, suggesting that the parent context had more direct than indirect effects on toddlers. Conclusions were similar even after accounting for infant temperament, family demographic characteristics and infant birthweight, with substantial reductions in effects only found for associations of parenting self-efficacy with toddlers' outcomes.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom518
dc.relation.ispartofpageto529
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalInfant Behavior and Development
dc.relation.ispartofvolume33
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchClinical sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCognitive and computational psychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3202
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5204
dc.titleParents, parenting and toddler adaptation: Evidence from a national longitudinal study of Australian children
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Health, School of Applied Psychology
gro.date.issued2010
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorZimmer-Gembeck, Melanie


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