TY - JOUR
T1 - Mothering, fathering, and infant negativity as antecedents of boys' externalizing problems and inhibition at age 3 years
T2 - Differential susceptibility to rearing experience?
AU - Belsky, Jay
AU - Hsieh, Kuang Hua
AU - Crnic, Keith
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - To examine the effects of infant negative emotionality and of mothering and fathering during the toddler years on 3-year-old boys' externalizing problems and inhibition, as well as explore the proposition that children vary in their susceptibility to rearing influence, 125 first-born, Caucasian boys from maritally intact families were studied. Results revealed that when infant negativity is measured with objective, replicable, and discriminantly valid procedures, no relation obtains between it and externalizing problems (nor inhibition). Moreover, as hypothesized on the basis of prior work, parenting was a stronger predictor of externalizing problems and inhibition in the case of children who were highly negative as infants. Mothering proved a stronger predictor of externalizing problems and fathering of inhibition, with more negative mothering in the 2nd and 3rd year forecasting higher CBCL-externalizing scores and less negative fathering in the 2nd and 3rd year and more positive fathering in the 2nd year forecasting more inhibition at age 3. Implications of these findings for studies of parental influence are considered.
AB - To examine the effects of infant negative emotionality and of mothering and fathering during the toddler years on 3-year-old boys' externalizing problems and inhibition, as well as explore the proposition that children vary in their susceptibility to rearing influence, 125 first-born, Caucasian boys from maritally intact families were studied. Results revealed that when infant negativity is measured with objective, replicable, and discriminantly valid procedures, no relation obtains between it and externalizing problems (nor inhibition). Moreover, as hypothesized on the basis of prior work, parenting was a stronger predictor of externalizing problems and inhibition in the case of children who were highly negative as infants. Mothering proved a stronger predictor of externalizing problems and fathering of inhibition, with more negative mothering in the 2nd and 3rd year forecasting higher CBCL-externalizing scores and less negative fathering in the 2nd and 3rd year and more positive fathering in the 2nd year forecasting more inhibition at age 3. Implications of these findings for studies of parental influence are considered.
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U2 - 10.1017/S095457949800162X
DO - 10.1017/S095457949800162X
M3 - Article
C2 - 9635226
AN - SCOPUS:0032012181
SN - 0954-5794
VL - 10
SP - 301
EP - 319
JO - Development and psychopathology
JF - Development and psychopathology
IS - 2
ER -