Family Risks and Protective Factors: Pathways to Early Head Start Toddlers' Social-Emotional Functioning

Autor/inn/en	Vick Whittaker, Jessica E.; Harden, Brenda Jones; See, Heather M.; Meisch, Allison D.; Westbrook, T'Pring R.
Titel	Family Risks and Protective Factors: Pathways to Early Head Start Toddlers' Social-Emotional Functioning
Quelle	In: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 26 (2011) 1, S.74-86 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-2006
DOI	10.1016/j.ecresq.2010.04.007
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Disadvantaged Youth; Home Visits; Child Rearing; Parent Child Relationship; At Risk Persons; Social Development; Emotional Development; Parent Influence; Affective Behavior; Low Income Groups; Toddlers; Correlation; Interpersonal Competence; Emotional Response + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Hausbesuch; Kindererziehung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Risikogruppe; Soziale Entwicklung; Gefühlsbildung; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Korrelation; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Emotionales Verhalten
Abstract	Early Head Start children may be more likely to exhibit difficulties with social-emotional functioning due to the high-risk environments in which they live. However, positive parenting may serve as a protective factor against the influence of risk on children's outcomes. The current study examines the effects of contextual and proximal risks on children's social-emotional outcomes and whether these effects are mediated by maternal sensitivity. One-hundred and fourteen low-income, high-risk mother-toddler dyads participated in this longitudinal study designed to examine the relationships between family risk, mothers' sensitivity, and children's social-emotional functioning in Early Head Start families. Researchers conducted two 2.5-h home visits, approximately six months apart, during which they assessed mothers' levels of family risk, maternal sensitivity, and their children's social-emotional functioning. A theoretically derived structural equation model was tested to examine the direct paths from family risk variables to children's social-emotional functioning and the indirect paths by way of the mediator variable, maternal sensitivity. Support was found for a model that identified maternal sensitivity as a mediator of the relationship between parenting stress and children's social-emotional functioning. Results have implications for providing services through Early Head Start programs that are aimed at alleviating parenting stress and enhancing maternal sensitivity. (Contains 4 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10