Positive Parenting Interacts with Child Temperament and Negative Parenting to Predict Children's Socially Appropriate Behavior

This study examined the effects of parents' positive and negative affect and behavior while interacting with their preschool child and the moderating role of child temperament in predicting children's subsequent difficulty with socially appropriate behavior around school-entry. Independent...

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Published in:Journal of social and clinical psychology 2015-05, Vol.34 (5), p.411-435
Main Authors: Danzig, Allison P, Dyson, Margaret W, Olino, Thomas M, Laptook, Rebecca S, Klein, Daniel N
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavior modification
Child Development
Child psychology
Childrearing Practices
Children
Clinical psychology
Developmental psychology
Parenting
Parents
Parents & parenting
Preschool Children
Regression analysis
Social behaviour
Social psychology
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Summary:This study examined the effects of parents' positive and negative affect and behavior while interacting with their preschool child and the moderating role of child temperament in predicting children's subsequent difficulty with socially appropriate behavior around school-entry. Independent observational measures were used to assess child temperament (dysphoria; exuberance) and parenting at age 3, and multi-informant reports of child socially appropriate behavior were collected at age 6 (N = 219). Hierarchical multiple regression analyses revealed that children's temperamental dysphoria moderated the relationship between positive parenting and later socially appropriate behavior. High- and low-dysphoric children trended in opposite directions; highly dysphoric children experienced greater difficulty with socially appropriate behavior as levels of positive parenting increased, whereas low-dysphoric children experienced less difficulty with socially appropriate behavior with higher levels of positive parenting. There was also an interaction between positive and negative parenting, whereby the combination of elevated positive negative parenting predicted children's later difficulty with socially appropriate behavior. The findings suggest that positive parenting interacts with early child temperament and negative parenting to impact the development of children's socially appropriate behavior.
ISSN:0736-7236
1943-2771
DOI:10.1521/jscp.2015.34.5.411