Family sociodemographic resources moderate the path from toddlers' hard-to-manage temperament to parental control to disruptive behavior in middle childhood

Sanghag Kim; Grazyna Kochanska

doi:10.1017/S0954579419001664

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Family sociodemographic resources moderate the path from toddlers' hard-to-manage temperament to parental control to disruptive behavior in middle childhood

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Family sociodemographic resources moderate the path from toddlers' hard-to-manage temperament to parental control to disruptive behavior in middle childhood

Sanghag Kim and Grazyna Kochanska

Development and psychopathology, Vol.33(1), pp.160-172

02/2021

DOI: 10.1017/S0954579419001664

PMCID: PMC7483242

PMID: 32133971

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Abstract

Research inspired by ecological perspectives has amply documented broad effects of the family's sociodemographic resources on children's outcomes, with parents' young age, low education, and low income considered risk factors. Typically, sociodemographic characteristics have been studied as influencing child outcomes either directly or indirectly through parenting. We tested a more nuanced longitudinal model in a community sample of 102 infants, mothers, and fathers. We conceptualized family sociodemographic resources, measured as a composite of parents' ages, education, and income, as moderating developmental cascades from children's hard-to-manage temperament to parental power-assertive control to children's disruptive behavior problems. Children's temperament measures encompassed proneness to anger and inability to delay, observed at 2 and 3 years in standard laboratory episodes. We observed parents' control at 4.5 and 5.5 years in lengthy naturalistic prohibition paradigms, and obtained parental ratings of children's disruptive behavior at 6.5 and 8 years. As expected, moderated mediation analyses, covarying stability of children's difficulty and parental control, revealed that the cascade from hard-to-manage temperament to child behavior problems, mediated by parental power-assertive control, was present in families with relatively more disadvantaged sociodemographic characteristics, or fewer resources, but absent in families with more advantageous sociodemographic features, or more resources. The findings were parallel for mother- and father-child dyads.

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Child Behavior

Child, Preschool

Female

Humans

Infant

Male

Mothers

Parent-Child Relations

Parenting

Problem Behavior

Temperament

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Title: Subtitle: Family sociodemographic resources moderate the path from toddlers' hard-to-manage temperament to parental control to disruptive behavior in middle childhood
Creators: Sanghag Kim - Department of Sociology, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
Grazyna Kochanska - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Development and psychopathology, Vol.33(1), pp.160-172
DOI: 10.1017/S0954579419001664
PMID: 32133971
PMCID: PMC7483242
NLM abbreviation: Dev Psychopathol
ISSN: 0954-5794
eISSN: 1469-2198
Grant note: K02 MH001446 / NIMH NIH HHS R01 HD069171 / NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD091047 / NICHD NIH HHS R01 MH063096 / NIMH NIH HHS
Language: English
Date published: 02/2021
Academic Unit: Psychological and Brain Sciences
Record Identifier: 9984213265002771

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