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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"Positive parenting"”.
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Evaluating a Positive Parenting Curriculum Package: An Analysis of the Acquisition of Key Skills
With the increase in survival for children with cancer, part of the focus of current research is aimed towards evaluating how these children are adapting psychosocially. Neurocognitive deficits have been well established. However, there are multiple facets encompassing quality of life, including …
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Promoting Positive Parenting and Supporting Child Development: Early Interventions Featuring Book Sharing and Play
… of their lives. Encouraging parents to provide positive caregiving and prioritising early relationships can promote this development, providing children with the best start in life. Parenting behaviour change and benefits for children can be supported in everyday, engaging child-parent …
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Evaluation of the Parent Centre's positive parenting skills training programme: a randomised controlled trial
… assessment of the fidelity, and outcomes, of a parenting programme. The programme is implemented by The Parent Centre, a non-profit organisation (NPO) which provides a range of support services for caregivers of children. The primary audience for this dissertation includes programme stakeholders …
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Positivity Beyond Absence of Negativity: Social Competence Mediates the Association Between Positive Parenting and Adolescent Friendship Quality
Parenting is important for adolescent friendship development. However, previous research has focused on the adverse effect of negative parenting on adolescents' behavioral problems that undermines their friendships (e.g., Cook et al., 2012). Positive parenting, beyond the absence of negative …
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Latent Variable Models for Longitudinal Outcomes from a Parenting Intervention Study
… Programme (SCFP). The SCFP aimed to reduce harsh parenting practices and child behavioural problems in high-risk South African families. This research project examined the use of structural equation modelling (SEM) for longitudinal profiles and latent growth mediation modelling. Improved behaviour …
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The Impact of The 101s: A Guide to Positive Discipline Parent Training: A Case Study of Kindergarteners and Their Parents in Bangkok, Thailand
… However, empirical research of parents' use of positive practices to discipline their young children has been limited in Thailand. Given the effectiveness of positive discipline as an accepted method in order to improve children's social and academic competencies in U.S., a cultural extension of …
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Executive Function and Parenting Among Latinx Caregivers of Young Children
<p>Supportive and responsive parenting is vital to the healthy development of young children. Parenting behaviors are determined by many factors, including caregivers’ cognitive resources and abilities such as executive functioning (EF). The present study investigated how two core dimensions of EF, …
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Relations between Parenting, Family Context, and Emotion Regulation in the Development of Psychopathology in Young Maltreated Children
… investigation into the relations between parenting styles, practices, and emotion regulation in maltreating families has been severely lacking in the literature. The current study observationally examined the relations between specific parenting practices, parenting styles, and maltreated …
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Maternal Psychological Control, Use of Supportive Parenting, and Childhood Depressive Symptoms
… depressive symptoms often examines the impact of parenting practices as either sources of or buffers against depressive symptoms. The current study, operating from a stress-process framework, examined the interactive effects of supportive parenting practices (i.e., mothers' use of positive …
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Maternal Depression and Child Maladjustment: The Role of Parental Style
… was one of the first to attempt to conceptualize parenting and she identified four distinct categories of parental style. Building upon Baumrind’s work, Ellen Skinner has further refined the concept of parenting and identified six dimensions of parenting: warmth, structure, autonomy support, …
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Maternal Depression and Child Maladjustment: The Role of Parental Style
… was one of the first to attempt to conceptualize parenting and she identified four distinct categories of parental style. Building upon Baumrind’s work, Ellen Skinner has further refined the concept of parenting and identified six dimensions of parenting: warmth, structure, autonomy support, …
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Economic pressure, positivity, and positive child development
… and a protective factor for young children’s positive development. The dissertation includes two studies: the first study examined the association between individuals’ economic pressure and positivity throughout adulthood and the second study examined the impact of parental positivity and …
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Link Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Parenting Styles of African American Fathers
… than fathers of other races to having a negative parenting style due to their high levels of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). ACEs are traumatic experiences during childhood that can affect a person’s mental and physical health, income and adult parenting style. African American adults tend …
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Intensive Mothering Attitudes and Children's Executive Function: The Role of Parenting Stress
… is increasingly being recognized as a dominant parenting discourse. IM, conceptualized as hyper-parenting ideals that place pressure on mothers to cultivate children's cognitive development, has also been demonstrated to have consequences for mothers' mental wellbeing. On the other hand, IM …
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Confident Parenting - A Book Proposal
Parental self-efficacy is a driver of positive parenting, especially as couples welcome a new baby into their lives, becoming parents for the first time. Confident Parenting is the title of an upcoming book that will aid the transition from couplehood to parenthood, allowing couples to parent …
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Equity at the Starting Line: Pre-Primary Education, Parenting, and Child Development in China
… education (PPE) and in-home nurturing (termed “parenting” for brevity) are vital in bolstering child development, suggesting that interventions to improve PPE participation and parenting practices for disadvantaged children can play a potentially critical equalizing role by levelling the playing …
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Mediating and Moderating Effects of Child Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Reactivity in the Association Between Early Childhood Adversity and Later Adjustment
… of supportive environments (family functioning, positive parenting) and adjustment. RSA-R was collected from a community sample of 306 children when they were 3- and 4-years-old. Exposure to childhood adversity and supportive context were assessed by mother report when the children were …
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Predictors and Correlates of Adolescent Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
… validated a new measure of child perceptions of positive parenting, which I used to demonstrate the uni-directional prospective association between positive parenting and lower rates of NSSI amongst 1489 adolescents (ages 14-25). I then used this new measure of positive parenting to demonstrate …
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Antecedents and Consequences of Parent Technology Use in Parents of Young Children
… including an update to the process model of parenting (Belsky, 1984; Taraban and Shaw, 2018) and support from both attachment theory (Ainsworth et al., 1978; Bowlby, 1969) and ecological theory (Bronfenbrenner, 1977; Bronfenbrenner and Ceci, 1994), the current research examined the role of …
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Wise, well off and tired: a qualitative study of over-35 mothers raising their teens
… findings suggest maternal age contributes to a positive parenting outcome due to life experience, emotional maturity and financial security. Drawbacks include fatigue and reduced fertility that limited family size, as well as competing life stages such as retirement and college. Older mothers …
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