Title
Relationships Among Parents’ Economic Stress, Parenting, And Young Children’S Behavior Problems
Keywords
Behavior problems; Economy; Parenting stress; Young children
Abstract
In a time of economic recession, identifying how economic stress may be related to parenting stress, to the parenting behaviors used by mothers and fathers, and to young children’s behavior problems may provide insight into interventions that may best assist families through their own economic crises. As part of this study, 124 culturally diverse parents with young children who ranged in age from 2- to 6-years rated their own economic, life, and parenting stress; their parenting behaviors; and their young children’s behavior problems. Hierarchical regression analyses suggested that negative economic events and parenting stress provide unique incremental variance in predicting young children’s internalizing problems, whereas life stress and parenting stress provide unique incremental variance in predicting young children’s externalizing problems. With closer examination, parenting stress fully mediated the relationship between parents’ financial cutbacks and young children’s internalizing problems and the relationship between parents’ negative economic events and young children’s externalizing problems. These findings suggested that these variables are important to examine collectively.
Publication Date
2-6-2014
Publication Title
Child Psychiatry and Human Development
Volume
45
Issue
6
Number of Pages
712-727
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-014-0440-z
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
84893171254 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84893171254
STARS Citation
Puff, Jayme and Renk, Kimberly, "Relationships Among Parents’ Economic Stress, Parenting, And Young Children’S Behavior Problems" (2014). Scopus Export 2010-2014. 8533.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2010/8533