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Bidirectional Relations Between Parenting and Behavior Problems From Age 8 to 13 in Nine Countries
Jennifer E. Lansford,
W. Andrew Rothenberg,
Todd M. Jensen,
Melissa A. Lippold,
Dario Bacchini,
Marc H. Bornstein,
Lei Chang,
Kirby Deater-Deckard,
Laura Di Giunta,
Kenneth A. Dodge,
Patrick S. Malone,
Paul Oburu,
Concetta Pastorelli,
Ann T. Skinner,
Emma Sorbring,
Laurence Steinberg,
Sombat Tapanya,
Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado,
Liane Peña Alampay,
Suha M. Al-Hassan,
Corresponding Author
Jennifer E. Lansford
Duke University
Requests for reprints should be sent to Jennifer E. Lansford, Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Box 90545, Durham, NC 27708. E-mail: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorMarc H. Bornstein
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Search for more papers by this authorSuha M. Al-Hassan
Hashemite University
Emirates College for Advanced Education
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Jennifer E. Lansford,
W. Andrew Rothenberg,
Todd M. Jensen,
Melissa A. Lippold,
Dario Bacchini,
Marc H. Bornstein,
Lei Chang,
Kirby Deater-Deckard,
Laura Di Giunta,
Kenneth A. Dodge,
Patrick S. Malone,
Paul Oburu,
Concetta Pastorelli,
Ann T. Skinner,
Emma Sorbring,
Laurence Steinberg,
Sombat Tapanya,
Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado,
Liane Peña Alampay,
Suha M. Al-Hassan,
Corresponding Author
Jennifer E. Lansford
Duke University
Requests for reprints should be sent to Jennifer E. Lansford, Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Box 90545, Durham, NC 27708. E-mail: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorMarc H. Bornstein
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Search for more papers by this authorSuha M. Al-Hassan
Hashemite University
Emirates College for Advanced Education
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This research has been funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant RO1-HD054805; predoctoral fellowships provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (T32-HD07376) through the Center for Developmental Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Fogarty International Center grant RO3-TW008141. This research also was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH/NICHD and the ERC (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. Preparation of the manuscript was supported by the Society for Research on Adolescence.
Abstract
This study used data from 12 cultural groups in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States; N = 1,298) to understand the cross-cultural generalizability of how parental warmth and control are bidirectionally related to externalizing and internalizing behaviors from childhood to early adolescence. Mothers, fathers, and children completed measures when children were ages 8–13. Multiple-group autoregressive, cross-lagged structural equation models revealed that child effects rather than parent effects may better characterize how warmth and control are related to child externalizing and internalizing behaviors over time, and that parent effects may be more characteristic of relations between parental warmth and control and child externalizing and internalizing behavior during childhood than early adolescence.
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