The New Friends Vignettes: Measuring Parental Psychological Control that Confers Risk for Anxious Adjustment in Preschoolers

Autor/inn/en	McShane, Kelly E.; Hastings, Paul D.
Titel	The New Friends Vignettes: Measuring Parental Psychological Control that Confers Risk for Anxious Adjustment in Preschoolers
Quelle	In: International Journal of Behavioral Development, 33 (2009) 6, S.481-495 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0165-0254
DOI	10.1177/0165025409103874
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Anxiety; Social Adjustment; Socialization; Gender Differences; Parent Influence; Parent Child Relationship; Context Effect; Mothers; Daughters; Fathers; Sons; Validity + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Angst; Soziale Anpassung; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Geschlechterkonflikt; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Mother; Mutter; Daughter; Tochter; Son; Sohn; Gültigkeit
Abstract	This investigation examined the links between preschoolers' internalizing problems and anxiety-related social difficulties and two aspects of maternal and paternal psychological control: overprotection and critical control. Some 115 mothers and 92 fathers completed the New Friends Vignettes (NFV), a new measure of psychological control and supportive parenting designed to assess parenting relevant to young children's internalizing problems and anxiety. Children's anxious behaviors with peers at daycare or preschool were observed, mothers reported on preschoolers' internalizing problems, and teachers reported on children's internalizing problems and isolated behaviors. The NFV scales demonstrated good internal consistency and one-year test-retest reliability for mothers and fathers, and moderate convergent validity with observed parenting for mothers. Maternal overprotection and paternal critical control predicted more internalizing problems and anxious adjustment in preschoolers, with some associations being stronger for sons than daughters. Conversely, paternal supportiveness predicted fewer internalizing difficulties at preschool in daughters only. Children's anxious behaviors predicted increasing paternal overprotection, and their internalizing problems at home and preschool tended to predict increasing maternal overprotection and critical control. Results support the reliability and validity of the New Friends Vignettes, and are indicative of parent differences in socialization processes, gender differences in risk for internalizing problems, and possible bidirectional pathways of influence in the socialization of internalizing trajectories. (Contains 4 tables and 3 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10