Parenting Children With Cerebral Palsy: A Longitudinal Examination of the Role of Child and Parent Factors

Because parents of children with cerebral palsy encounter many challenges, the quality their parenting varies substantially across time. To understand how and why behaviors change time, we examined contributions child behavior parents’ psychological needs to explanations yearly variation in responsive, autonomy-supportive, psychologically controlling parenting. We also explored whether motivation take care explained some engage better-quality than others. Parents ( N = 117) M age 10.98 years) participated a three-wave longitudinal study. Multilevel analyses indicated that variations need satisfaction frustration related fluctuations in, respectively, autonomy-supportive Child had few unique effects on Parents’ autonomous was associated better overall discuss implications for practice directions future research.