tailieunhanh - Group and individual stability of three parenting dimensions

The purposes of this study were to (1) evaluate the true and observed stability of these parenting dimensions related to older children, (2) explore the distribution of individual-level change across nine months and (3) test potential parental predictors of parenting instability. | Rimehaug et al. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2011 5 19 http content 5 1 19 CHILD ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH Open Access Group and individual stability of three parenting dimensions Tormod Rimehaug1 2 Jan Wallander1 3 and Turid Suzanne Berg-Nielsen1 Abstract Background The Parental Bonding Instrument present self-report version PBI-PCh includes three scales Warmth Protectiveness and Authoritarianism which describe three dimensions of current parenting. The purposes of this study were to 1 evaluate the true and observed stability of these parenting dimensions related to older children 2 explore the distribution of individual-level change across nine months and 3 test potential parental predictors of parenting instability. Methods Questionnaires were distributed to school-based samples of community parents of both genders n 150 twice nine months apart. These questionnaires measured parenting parental personality and emotional symptoms. Results Based on 1 stability correlations 2 true stability estimates from structural equation modeling SEM and 3 distribution of individual-level change Warmth appeared rather stable although not as stable as personality traits. Protectiveness was moderately stable whereas Authoritarianism was the least stable parenting dimension among community parents. The differences in stability between the three dimensions were consistent in both estimated true stability and observed stability. Most of the instability in Warmth originated from a minority of parents with personality childhood care characteristics and lower current parenting warmth. For the Protectiveness dimension instability was associated with higher Protectiveness scores. Conclusions True instability with all three self-reported parenting dimensions can occur across nine months in a community sample related to older children 7-15 but it may occur with varying degrees among dimensions and subpopulations. The highest stability .