TY - JOUR
T1 - Longitudinal transactional relations among young children’s defiance and committed compliance and maternal assertive control
AU - Xu, Xiaoye
AU - Spinrad, Tracy L.
AU - Eisenberg, Nancy
AU - Eggum-Wilkens, Natalie D.
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health Grant R01 MH60838 to Nancy Eisenberg and Tracy L. Spinrad. We would like to thank the children and parents involved in the current study. In addition, we appreciate our graduate and undergraduate research assistants for their contributions.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS).
PY - 2021/9/1
Y1 - 2021/9/1
N2 - The main goal of this study was to more closely understand the direction of relations between maternal behavior and young children's defiance and committed compliance. We examined 256 mother–child dyads to explore developmental transactional relations between maternal assertive control, children's committed compliance, and children's defiance at 18 (T1), 30 (T2), and 42 (T3) months of age. After controlling for maternal gentle control, SES, and child sex, results showed parent effects for children's committed compliance, such that T1 maternal assertive control negatively predicted T3 committed compliance. Furthermore, toddlers’ behavior predicted T3 parenting; that is, toddlers’ T1 defiance positively predicted T3 maternal assertive control. Results of the present study indicate relatively long-term prediction (to 42 months) from both parent and child behaviors at 18 months of age, and the findings have implications for understanding the bidirectional and complex processes that account for young children's adaptive and maladaptive behaviors.
AB - The main goal of this study was to more closely understand the direction of relations between maternal behavior and young children's defiance and committed compliance. We examined 256 mother–child dyads to explore developmental transactional relations between maternal assertive control, children's committed compliance, and children's defiance at 18 (T1), 30 (T2), and 42 (T3) months of age. After controlling for maternal gentle control, SES, and child sex, results showed parent effects for children's committed compliance, such that T1 maternal assertive control negatively predicted T3 committed compliance. Furthermore, toddlers’ behavior predicted T3 parenting; that is, toddlers’ T1 defiance positively predicted T3 maternal assertive control. Results of the present study indicate relatively long-term prediction (to 42 months) from both parent and child behaviors at 18 months of age, and the findings have implications for understanding the bidirectional and complex processes that account for young children's adaptive and maladaptive behaviors.
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U2 - 10.1111/infa.12416
DO - 10.1111/infa.12416
M3 - Article
C2 - 34120399
AN - SCOPUS:85107820530
SN - 1525-0008
VL - 26
SP - 686
EP - 704
JO - Infancy
JF - Infancy
IS - 5
ER -