Preschool Children With and Without Developmental Delay: Risk, Parenting, and Child Demandingness

Although past literature has established relations between early child risk factors, negative parenting, and problematic child behavior, the nature of these interrelations and pathways of influence over time remains largely unknown, especially in children with developmental delays or disabilities. I...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inJournal of mental health research in intellectual disabilities Vol. 4; no. 3; pp. 206 - 226
Main Authors Brown, Mallory A., McIntyre, Laura Lee, Crnic, Keith A., Baker, Bruce L., Blacher, Jan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Philadelphia Taylor & Francis Group 01.07.2011
Routledge
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Bayley Mental Development Index
Bayley Scales of Infant Development
Behavior
Behavior Problems
California
Child Behavior
Child Behavior Checklist
Child Rearing
child risk
developmental delay
Developmental Delays
Developmental disabilities
Longitudinal Studies
Parent Child Relationship
parenting
Parents
Parents & parenting
Pennsylvania
Preschool Children
Risk
Risk factors
California
Pennsylvania
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:Although past literature has established relations between early child risk factors, negative parenting, and problematic child behavior, the nature of these interrelations and pathways of influence over time remains largely unknown, especially in children with developmental delays or disabilities. In the current study, data were drawn from the longitudinal Collaborative Family Study and included a sample of 260 families with preschool children with and without developmental delays. Child-related risk was assessed at child age 36 months, maternal intrusiveness and negative affect at 48 months, and child demandingness at 60 months. Results indicated significant relations between early risk, negative parenting, and subsequent child demandingness. Sickliness as an infant was the most salient predictive risk factor of later child demandingness. Developmental delay was the most significant predictor of subsequent negative parenting. Results are discussed as being more indicative of additive rather than mediational processes given that early child risk and negative maternal parenting both contributed uniquely to the subsequent development of child demandingness.
ISSN:1931-5864
1931-5872
DOI:10.1080/19315864.2011.596990