Coercive parent-child
interaction models posit that an escalating cycle of negative, bidirectional
interchanges influences the development of boys' externalizing problems and
caregivers' maladaptive parenting over time. However, longitudinal studies
examining this hypothesis have been unable to rule out the possibility that
between-individual factors account for bidirectional associations between child
externalizing problems and maladaptive parenting.
Using a longitudinal sample
of boys (N = 503) repeatedly assessed eight times across 6-month intervals in
childhood (in a range between 6 and 13 years), the current study is the first
to use novel within-individual change (fixed effects) models to examine whether
parents tend to increase their use of maladaptive parenting strategies
following an increase in their son's externalizing problems, or vice versa.
These bidirectional associations were examined using multiple facets of
externalizing problems (i.e., interpersonal callousness, conduct and
oppositional defiant problems, hyperactivity/impulsivity) and parenting
behaviors (i.e., physical punishment, involvement, parent-child communication).
Analyses failed to support the notion that when boys increase their typical
level of problem behaviors, their parents show an increase in their typical
level of maladaptive parenting across the subsequent 6 month period, and
vice versa. Instead, across 6-month intervals, within parent-son dyads, changes
in maladaptive parenting and child externalizing problems waxed and waned in
concert. Fixed effects models to address the topic of bidirectional relations
between parent and child behavior are severely underrepresented.
We recommend
that other researchers who have found significant bidirectional parent-child
associations using rank-order change models reexamine their data to determine
whether these findings hold when examining changes within parent-child dyads.
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By: Besemer S1, Loeber R2, Hinshaw SP3, Pardini DA4.
- 1University of California, Berkeley, Institute of Human Development (http://ihd.berkeley.edu/), 1205 Tolman Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA. besemer@berkeley.edu.
- 2Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
- 3Department of Psychology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
- 4School of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
- J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2016 Jan 18.
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