Using data from a diverse sample of 620 families residing in rural, predominately low-income communities, this study examined longitudinal links between fathers' sensitive parenting in infancy and toddlerhood and children's early executive functioning, as well as the contribution of maternal sensitive parenting. After accounting for the quality of concurrent and prior parental care, children's ...

The current report provides a new framework to explore the role of parenting practices and principles during infancy. We identify structure and attunement as key parenting principles during infancy. Structure represents reliance on regularity and routines in daily life. Attunement represents reliance on infant cues and close physical contact. We suggest parents' relative endorsement of these pa...

AIMS This paper reports a study exploring parents' experiences of caring for a child who is dependent on medical technology, and in particular of performing clinical procedures on their own children. BACKGROUND A group of children with a continuing need for the support of medical technology have emerged in community settings as a result of medical advances and government policies. Caring for ...

In spite of the established link between parenting and adolescent sexual risk behavior, less is known about the role of adolescent gender as a potential moderator of this association. This literature review integrates findings from 24 studies to examine gender as a moderator of the link between parenting and youth sexual risk behavior. Despite the wide variability in methodology across the revi...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Adult security attachment state Parenting motivation Infant faces Reward Liking Wanting This study aimed to systematically examine the coherence in the motivation of parenting with the security attachment state of adults. A total of 228 childless participants (126 men, 102 women) first completed a self-report questionnaire including the State Adult Attachment Mea...

This paper aims to elucidate the concept of adolescents’ issues and role of parents, teachers, and community in modifying or changing them. Many literature reviews have concentrated on the relationship between adolescents’ issues based on several theories and factors. In this regard, it is reasonable to refer to identity formation during adolescence, theories of adolescent, parenting styles, im...

Acknowledgments: I thank Mark Nord for patiently answering all of my questions about measuring food insecurity in the SIPP and Qing Wang for research assistance. I received many helpful comments on the project at contract number AG-3198-B-10-0028. The opinions and conclusions expressed herein are solely those of the author and should not be construed as representing the opinions or policies of ...

BACKGROUND Spina bifida (SB) can place parents at risk for increased levels of parenting stress. Little is known, however, about the role of parents' intrapersonal resources. Therefore, based on ideas of the Disability-Stress-Coping Model, relations between the severity of SB, parents' personality traits and parenting stress were examined. METHODS Forty-six mothers and 37 fathers of children ...

1 School Children 2 3 4 5 6 7 Abstract 8 Next to available data about actual Internet use of young children at home, most research especially 9 focuses on the threats and opportunities about active Internet usage. Limited empirical research 10 focuses on the role and impact of parents in this context. In the present study, Internet parenting 11 styles are defined and operationalized to study th...