Structured Parenting of Toddlers at High versus Low Genetic Risk: Two Pathways to Child Problems

Autor/inn/en	Leve, Leslie D.; Harold, Gordon T.; Ge, Xiaojia; Neiderhiser, Jenae M.; Shaw, Daniel; Scaramella, Laura V.; Reiss, David
Titel	Structured Parenting of Toddlers at High versus Low Genetic Risk: Two Pathways to Child Problems
Quelle	In: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 48 (2009) 11, S.1102-1109 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0890-8567
DOI	10.1097/CHI.0b013e3181b8bfc0
Schlagwörter	Check Lists; Behavior Problems; Mothers; Drug Use; Child Rearing; Toddlers; Psychopathology; Child Behavior; Parent Child Relationship; Genetics; Adoption; Parenting Styles; Early Intervention; Risk; Science Education; Child Behavior Checklist + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Checkliste; Mother; Mutter; Drug consumption; Substance abuse; Drogenkonsum; Kindererziehung; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Psychopathologie; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Humangenetik; Risiko; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung
Abstract	Objective: Little is known about how parenting might offset genetic risk to prevent the onset of child problems during toddlerhood. We used a prospective adoption design to separate genetic and environmental influences and test whether associations between structured parenting and toddler behavior problems were conditioned by genetic risk for psychopathology. Method: The sample included 290 linked sets of adoptive families and birth mothers and 95 linked birth fathers. Genetic risk was assessed via birth mother and birth father psychopathology (anxiety, depression, anti sociality, and drug use). Structured parenting was assessed via micro social coding of adoptive mothers' behavior during a cleanup task. Toddler behavior problems were assessed with the Child Behavior Checklist. Results: Controlling for tempera mental risk at 9 months, there was an interaction between birth mother psychopathology and adoptive mothers' parenting on toddler behavior problems at 18 months. The interaction indicated two pathways to child problems: structured parenting was beneficial for toddlers at high genetic risk but was related to behavior problems for toddlers at low genetic risk. This crossover interaction pattern was replicated with birth father psychopathology as the index of genetic risk. Conclusions: The effects of structured parenting on toddler behavior problems varied as a function of genetic risk. Children at genetic risk might benefit from parenting interventions during toddler hood that enhance structured parenting. (Contains 3 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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