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L. Yates; S. Keville; A. Ludlow – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
The transition from primary to secondary school is a stressful period for autistic individuals. However, less is known about parental experiences of the school transition, and its impact on the family. This study explored mothers' perspectives on the psychological impact of the transition to secondary school for their autistic children and their…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Mothers, Parent Attitudes, Adjustment (to Environment)
Whitney, Rondalyn Varney – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
The occupational role of a mother parenting a child with developmental and socially disruptive conduct is unique. How mothers express their experiences is poorly explored in the literature. This study aims to better understand mothers' description of their unique experiences in order to better inform interventions. Using a narrative inquiry…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Role, Child Rearing, Child Behavior
Geanina Cucu Ciuhan – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
This study examines the relationship between permissive parenting style and atypical behaviour in preschool children, focusing on the mediating role of generalized anxiety. A community sample of 293 children, aged 3-5 years, were tested with measures assessed by parents and teachers. Regression analyses were employed. The psychometric tests used…
Descriptors: Correlation, Anxiety, Preschool Children, Parenting Styles
Aghebati, Asma; Joekar, Sanaz; Hakim Shoshtari, Mitra; Gharraee, Banafsheh; Maghami Sharif, Zahra – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
This study considered the effect of Triple P as a behavioural family intervention on mothers of children with separation anxiety disorder. Three hundred families with separation anxious children participated in this research which divided into intervention and control groups. The measuring tools were Parenting Scale, Depression Anxiety Stress…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Education, Mothers, Separation Anxiety
Shorer, M.; Zilker, N.; Salomon, A.; Spiegelman, N. – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study examined parental playfulness as a mediator of the association between mothers' emotional difficulties (anxiety, depression) and their children's psychosocial adjustment (externalizing, internalizing, and prosocial behaviours). We also examined the associations between parental playfulness and mothers' supportive / unsupportive…
Descriptors: Mothers, Mental Health, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology)
Magda Matetovici; Anouk Spruit; Cristina Colonnesi; Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal; Marc Noom – Infant Mental Health Journal: Infancy and Early Childhood, 2025
Acknowledging that the parent-child attachment is a dyadic relationship, we investigated differences between pairs of parents and preschool children based on gender configurations in the association between attachment and problem behavior. We looked at mother-daughter, mother-son, father-daughter, and father-son dyads, but also compared mothers…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Preschool Children, Mothers, Daughters
Meirong Chen; Ting Lan; Yan Jiang – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
To explore the effects of family functioning on problem behaviour among Chinese preschool children, 1,025 preschool parents were assessed using the family assessment device, child problem behaviour scale, and parent-child relationship scale through a random sampling method. Based on the McMaster model of family functioning and the Process Person…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Kabakli Çimen, Latife – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2022
This research aims to examine the child-rearing experiences and attitudes toward the violence of mothers who witnessed or experienced violence in their childhood and those who have not. The research is conducted over a study group of 30 mothers whose 5- to 6-year-old children are attending kindergarten. The data have been collected using the…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Attitudes, Violence, Young Children
Moed, Anat – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Coercion theory well characterizes the behavioral aspects that often lead to dysfunctional family processes. Recent conceptualizations have incorporated emotion into models of coercive interactions, yet empirical evidence has been limited. In this study, repeated measures of mother-child dyads (N = 319) were assessed over the course of 2 years to…
Descriptors: Mothers, Children, Emotional Response, Child Behavior
Güven, Didem – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2022
Upon learning that their child has a neurodevelopmental disorder, families enter a different process and can experience problems related to their child's behavior management. This study was designed in response to a request from mothers with children diagnosed with various neurodevelopmental disorders. The study used a multi-level case study, one…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Mothers, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Child Behavior
Yildirim, Hasan Hüseyin; Rovshenov, Atajan – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic, which emerged in 2019, disrupted global education and training activities. During the epidemic, online education has replaced face-to-face education. During the epidemic, the routines of all families and their children have changed. This situation adversely affected the lives of both families with normally developing…
Descriptors: Mothers, Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders, COVID-19
Tollossa, Ruhama M.; Nelson, Jackie A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2021
A common strategy parents use to justify their point of view during parent-child conflict is conventional reasoning, which focuses on child obedience to authority. In this brief report, we examined mothers' use of conventional justification during mother-child conflict discussions in relation to the resolution reached and children's behavior…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Conflict, Power Structure
Herdem Aslan Genç; Ceymi Doenyas; Yasemin Aksu; Mirac Nur Musaoglu; Sena Uzunay; Tuba Mutluer – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on autistic individuals and their families are recently emerging. This study investigated these effects in 40 mother-child dyads by measuring the behavioral problems of autistic individuals (via Aberrant Behavior Checklist) and their mothers' anxiety levels (via Beck Anxiety Inventory) during the…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, COVID-19, Pandemics, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Allison P. Mugno; Lindsay C. Malloy – Applied Developmental Science, 2024
115, 6-9-year-olds (M age = 7.47 years) participated in a scripted event during which the child's mother or a stranger broke a forbidden puppet and requested secrecy. Then, children were either (1) primed for the goal of honesty (prime), (2) asked to promise to tell the truth (oath), or (3) given no instructions (control) before responding to…
Descriptors: Interviews, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Young Children, Parent Child Relationship
Mello, Catherine; Rivard, Mélina; Morin, Diane; Patel, Shaneha; Morin, Marjorie – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
The present study examined which aspects of the child's behavior and clinical profile accounted for three dimensions of parenting stress: related to parenting roles, to interactions with the child, and to the child. Measures of adaptive behavior, intellectual functioning, autism symptom severity, and challenging behavior and emotional difficulties…
Descriptors: Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Severity (of Disability), Behavior Problems, Parent Child Relationship