The Role of Culture and Contextual Risk for Maternal Parenting and Children's Behavior Regulation in Chile and Germany.
Children's behavior regulation development takes place in diverse sociocultural settings. In this study, we take a multilayer ecological perspective and examine cross-cultural as well as intra-cultural similarities and differences in relations between different aspects of contextual risks (i.e., fam...
| Published in: | Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 31; no. 9; pp. 2472 - 2491 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=159001479&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 159001479 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10621024 JFM jtl: Journal of Child & Family Studies issn: 10621024 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2022 vid: 31 iid: 9 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 159001479 10.1007/s10826-022-02343-9 ppf: 2472 ppct: 19 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.2MB tig: atl: The Role of Culture and Contextual Risk for Maternal Parenting and Children's Behavior Regulation in Chile and Germany. aug: au: Deffaa, Mirjam Weis, Mirjam Muñoz, Lorena Trommsdorff, Gisela affil: Department of Psychology, Developmental and Cross-Cultural Psychology, University of Konstanz, Universitätsstraße 10, 78464, Konstanz, Germany TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology, Centre for International Student Assessment (ZIB), Technical University of Munich, Arcisstraße 21, 80333, Munich, Germany Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Universidad de Chile, Av.Capitán Ignacio Carrera Pinto 1045, Santiago de Chile, Chile Universidad San Sebastian, Santiago de Chile, Chile su: Germany Chile Culture Psychology of mothers Child behavior Parenting Motherhood Control (Psychology) Risk assessment Questionnaires sug: subj: Culture Psychology of mothers Child behavior Parenting Motherhood Control (Psychology) Germany Chile Risk assessment Questionnaires keyword: behavior regulation contextual risk Cultural contexts parenting restrictive control behavior regulation contextual risk Cultural contexts parenting restrictive control ab: Children's behavior regulation development takes place in diverse sociocultural settings. In this study, we take a multilayer ecological perspective and examine cross-cultural as well as intra-cultural similarities and differences in relations between different aspects of contextual risks (i.e., family and neighborhood risk), maternal restrictive control, and children's behavior regulation in Chile and Germany. One hundred sixty-seven mothers of primary school children in Chile and 109 mothers in Germany (total sample M (child age) = 10.01 years) completed questionnaires on family risk, parenting practices, and their child's behavior regulation. Mothers in Germany rated children's behavior regulation significantly higher than mothers in Chile. Further, in both cultural contexts (Chile, Germany), the higher the family risk, the higher was the use of maternal restrictive control and the lower the child's behavior regulation. In Chile, after including maternal restrictive control, the relation between family risk and children's behavior regulation remained significant. In Germany, in contrast, there was no direct significant relation between family risk and children's behavior regulation, instead we found a significant indirect pathway via maternal restrictive control. Further, we investigated the moderating role of neighborhood risk, as distal contextual risk, for the relation between family risk and maternal restrictive control as well as for the relation between maternal restrictive control and children's behavior regulation. We found no significant overall moderated mediation effect. However, findings in Chile and Germany revealed a conditional indirect effect indicating that family risk and behavior regulation were indirectly related via maternal restrictive control only when neighborhood risk was high. This underlines the need for an integrative consideration of the cultural context as well as family risk and neighborhood risk when investigating the role of maternal parenting for children's behavior regulation development. Highlights: This study takes an ecological perspective to investigate multilayer contextual aspects in relations between distal and proximal aspects of contextual risk, maternal parenting, and children's behavior regulation in Chile and Germany. In both cultural contexts studied, we found that the higher family risk was, the higher was the reported maternal restrictive control and the lower children's behavior regulation. In Chile, family risk and children's behavior regulation were related directly as well as indirectly via maternal restrictive control. In Germany, family risk and children's behavior regulation were not related directly but indirectly via maternal restrictive control. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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