TY - JOUR
T1 - Chaos, danger, and maternal parenting in families
T2 - Links with adolescent adjustment in low- and middle-income countries
AU - Deater-Deckard, Kirby
AU - Godwin, Jennifer
AU - Lansford, Jennifer E.
AU - Tirado, Liliana Maria Uribe
AU - Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean
AU - Alampay, Liane Peña
AU - Al-Hassan, Suha M.
AU - Bacchini, Dario
AU - Bornstein, Marc H.
AU - Chang, Lei
AU - Di Giunta, Laura
AU - Dodge, Kenneth A.
AU - Oburu, Paul
AU - Pastorelli, Concetta
AU - Skinner, Ann T.
AU - Sorbring, Emma
AU - Steinberg, Laurence
AU - Tapanya, Sombat
N1 - Funding Information:
This research has been funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant RO1-HD054805, Fogarty International Center grant RO3-TW008141, and the Jacobs Foundation. This research also was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH/NICHD, USA, and an International Research Fellowship in collaboration with the Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies (EDePO) at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London, UK, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 695300-HKADeC-ERC-2015-AdG). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH or NICHD.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The current longitudinal study is the first comparative investigation across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to test the hypothesis that harsher and less affectionate maternal parenting (child age 14 years, on average) statistically mediates the prediction from prior household chaos and neighborhood danger (at 13 years) to subsequent adolescent maladjustment (externalizing, internalizing, and school performance problems at 15 years). The sample included 511 urban families in six LMICs: China, Colombia, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, and Thailand. Multigroup structural equation modeling showed consistent associations between chaos, danger, affectionate and harsh parenting, and adolescent adjustment problems. There was some support for the hypothesis, with nearly all countries showing a modest indirect effect of maternal hostility (but not affection) for adolescent externalizing, internalizing, and scholastic problems. Results provide further evidence that chaotic home and dangerous neighborhood environments increase risk for adolescent maladjustment in LMIC contexts, via harsher maternal parenting.
AB - The current longitudinal study is the first comparative investigation across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to test the hypothesis that harsher and less affectionate maternal parenting (child age 14 years, on average) statistically mediates the prediction from prior household chaos and neighborhood danger (at 13 years) to subsequent adolescent maladjustment (externalizing, internalizing, and school performance problems at 15 years). The sample included 511 urban families in six LMICs: China, Colombia, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, and Thailand. Multigroup structural equation modeling showed consistent associations between chaos, danger, affectionate and harsh parenting, and adolescent adjustment problems. There was some support for the hypothesis, with nearly all countries showing a modest indirect effect of maternal hostility (but not affection) for adolescent externalizing, internalizing, and scholastic problems. Results provide further evidence that chaotic home and dangerous neighborhood environments increase risk for adolescent maladjustment in LMIC contexts, via harsher maternal parenting.
KW - academic achievement
KW - adolescence
KW - externalizing
KW - internalizing
KW - low- and middle-income countries
KW - parenting
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U2 - 10.1111/desc.12855
DO - 10.1111/desc.12855
M3 - Article
C2 - 31077512
AN - SCOPUS:85066500076
SN - 1363-755X
VL - 22
JO - Developmental science
JF - Developmental science
IS - 5
M1 - e12855
ER -