TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of Parental Acceptance-Rejection on Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors
T2 - A Longitudinal, Multicultural Study
AU - Rothenberg, W. Andrew
AU - Ali, Sumbleen
AU - Rohner, Ronald P.
AU - Lansford, Jennifer E.
AU - Britner, Preston A.
AU - Di Giunta, Laura
AU - Dodge, Kenneth A.
AU - Malone, Patrick S.
AU - Oburu, Paul
AU - Pastorelli, Concetta
AU - Skinner, Ann T.
AU - Sorbring, Emma
AU - Steinberg, Laurence
AU - Tapanya, Sombat
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 - Deater-Deckard, Kirby
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant RO1-HD054805, Fogarty International Center grant RO3-TW008141, and an International Research Fellowship with the Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, UK, funded by the European Research Council under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 695300-HKADeC-ERC-2015-AdG).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2022/1
Y1 - 2022/1
N2 - Background: Grounded in interpersonal acceptance-rejection theory, this study assessed children's (N=1,315) perceptions of maternal and paternal acceptance-rejection in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States) as predictors of children's externalizing and internalizing behaviors across ages 7-14 years.Methods: Parenting behaviors were measured using children's reports on the Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire. Child externalizing and internalizing behaviors were measured using mother, father, and child reports on the Achenbach System of Empirically-Based Assessment.Results: Using a multilevel modeling framework, we found that in cultures where both maternal and paternal indifference/neglect scores were higher than average-compared to other cultures -children's internalizing problems were more persistent. At the
within-culture level, all four forms of maternal and paternal rejection (i.e., coldness/lack of affection, hostility/aggression, indifference/neglect, and undifferentiated rejection) were independently associated with both externalizing and internalizing problems across ages 7-14 even after controlling for child gender, parent education, and each of the four forms of parental rejection.
Conclusions: Results demonstrate that the effects of perceived parental acceptance-rejection are panculturally similar.
AB - Background: Grounded in interpersonal acceptance-rejection theory, this study assessed children's (N=1,315) perceptions of maternal and paternal acceptance-rejection in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States) as predictors of children's externalizing and internalizing behaviors across ages 7-14 years.Methods: Parenting behaviors were measured using children's reports on the Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire. Child externalizing and internalizing behaviors were measured using mother, father, and child reports on the Achenbach System of Empirically-Based Assessment.Results: Using a multilevel modeling framework, we found that in cultures where both maternal and paternal indifference/neglect scores were higher than average-compared to other cultures -children's internalizing problems were more persistent. At the
within-culture level, all four forms of maternal and paternal rejection (i.e., coldness/lack of affection, hostility/aggression, indifference/neglect, and undifferentiated rejection) were independently associated with both externalizing and internalizing problems across ages 7-14 even after controlling for child gender, parent education, and each of the four forms of parental rejection.
Conclusions: Results demonstrate that the effects of perceived parental acceptance-rejection are panculturally similar.
KW - Externalizing
KW - Internalizing
KW - Interpersonal Acceptance-Rejection Theory
KW - Longitudinal
KW - Multicultural
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U2 - 10.1007/s10826-021-02072-5
DO - 10.1007/s10826-021-02072-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 35529327
AN - SCOPUS:85113395050
SN - 1062-1024
VL - 31
SP - 29
EP - 47
JO - Journal of Child and Family Studies
JF - Journal of Child and Family Studies
IS - 1
ER -