Sixty families were studied to examine the relationship among authoritarian, psychologically controlling, and authoritative parenting and the internalizing and externalizing behaviors of children with diabetes and their siblings. For both children with diabetes and siblings, mothers’ and fathers’ authoritarian and fathers’ psychologically controlling parenting were associated positively with ex...

Parenting capacity assessment in court evaluations is a particularly complex task, given that it is necessary to consider the vast array of distinct and interrelated aspects and abilities which represent parenting, as well as the elevated number of contextual levels that influence parenting quality. The perspective we want to introduce regards the potentiality of the multifamily group as the el...

9 Introduction 10 Threat perception and anxiety 12 Anxious cognitions and parenting 16 Transmission 20 Parenting style 30 Models of parenting and threat perception 35 Treatment studies 41 Conclusions 44

Aim To provide descriptive figures for infant distress and associated parenting at night in normal London home environments during the first three months of age. BACKGROUND Most western infants develop long night-time sleep periods by four months of age. However, 30% of infants in many countries sleep for short periods and cry out on waking in the night: the most common type of infant sleep b...

BACKGROUND We examined a model of multiple mediating pathways of income poverty, material hardship, parenting factors, and child health status to understand how material hardship and parental factors mediate the effects of poverty on child health. We hypothesized that: (a) poverty will be directly associated with material hardship, parental depression, and health status, and indirectly with par...

OBJECTIVE Parenting confidence with regards to caring for their infants is crucial for the healthy adaptation to parenthood and the development of positive parent-infant relationships. The postpartum period is a tremendous transitional time for parents, so their unique needs should be considered. This study explored parenting confidence and needs in parents when their newborns are discharged fr...

Data validating the Autism Parenting Stress Index (APSI) is presented for 274 children under age six. Cronbach's alpha was .827. As a measure of parenting stress specific to core and co-morbid symptoms of autism, the APSI is unique. It is intended for use by clinicians to identify areas where parents need support with parenting skills, and to assess the effect of intervention on parenting stres...

Introduction. This study adds to knowledge on somatisation in adolescents by exploring its relation with parenting behaviour and the mediating/moderating role of physiological responses in adolescents to parenting behaviour. Method. Eighteen adolescents with high and eighteen adolescents with low somatisation scores and their mothers completed a discussion task, from which observed parenting be...

The present study examined the role of parenting styles with respect to adolescents' sleep patterns and symptoms of depression and anxiety. A total of 246 adolescents (age: 17.58+/-1.62) took part in the study. They completed several questionnaires with regard to parenting styles and to symptoms of anxiety and depression; additionally, they filled in a questionnaire assessing sleep-related pers...

Although much research examines the association between fathers' relationship aggression and mothers' parenting, little attention is given to mothers' aggression, mutual aggression, or fathers' parenting. Using a sample of coresiding couples from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 973), the authors examine the association between mothers' and fathers' relationship aggression, m...