Examining effects of mother and father warmth and control on child externalizing and internalizing problems from age 8 to 13 in nine countriesShow others and affiliations
2020 (English)In: Development and psychopathology (Print), ISSN 0954-5794, E-ISSN 1469-2198, Vol. 32, no 3, p. 1113-1137Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This study used data from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and United States; N = 1,315) to investigate bidirectional associations between parental warmth and control, and child externalizing and internalizing behaviors. In addition, the extent to which these associations held across mothers and fathers and across cultures with differing normative levels of parent warmth and control were examined. Mothers, fathers, and children completed measures when children were ages 8 to 13. Multiple-group autoregressive cross-lagged structural equation models revealed that evocative child-driven effects of externalizing and internalizing behavior on warmth and control are ubiquitous across development, cultures, mothers, and fathers. Results also reveal that parenting effects on child externalizing and internalizing behaviors, though rarer than child effects, extend into adolescence when examined separately in mothers and fathers. Father-based parent effects were more frequent than mother effects. Most parent- and child-driven effects appear to emerge consistently across cultures. The rare culture-specific parenting effects suggested that occasionally the effects of parenting behaviors that run counter to cultural norms may be delayed in rendering their protective effect against deleterious child outcomes. © 2019 Cambridge University Press.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2020. Vol. 32, no 3, p. 1113-1137
Keywords [en]
control, cross-cultural. internalizing behaviors, parenting, Warmth
National Category
Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology)
Research subject
SOCIAL SCIENCE, Psychology; Child and Youth studies; Child and Youth studies
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-14916DOI: 10.1017/S0954579419001214ISI: 000557847000027Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85089358839OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-14916DiVA, id: diva2:1389163
Note
Funding: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant RO1‐HD054805, Fogarty International Center grant RO3‐TW008141, National Institute on Drug Abuse grant P30 DA023026, the NIH/NICHD Intramural Research Program, and an International Research Fellowship with the Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, UK, funded by the European Research Council under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No 695300‐HKADeC‐ERC‐2015‐AdG).
2020-01-292020-01-292021-04-24Bibliographically approved