Date of Award
Fall 12-2016
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.S.
Degree Program
Psychology
Department
Psychology
Major Professor
Scaramella, Laura
Second Advisor
Rubens, Sonia
Third Advisor
Laird, Robert
Abstract
This study investigated the impact of parenting and children’s self-control on children’s externalizing behavior problems among 167 predominantly African-American mothers and their 2-year-old children. Two hypotheses were considered based on two distinct theoretical origins of self-control. First, consistent with a behavioral perspective, exposure to positive parenting was hypothesized to indirectly affect externalizing behaviors through children’s self-control; that is, children’s self-control was expected to mediate the association between positive parenting and externalizing behaviors. Second, consistent with a temperamental perspective, self-control was expected to moderate the impact of positive parenting on levels of children’s externalizing behaviors such that only children with a propensity towards low self-control benefited from positive parenting. Results were not consistent with the mediational hypothesis and provided limited support for the moderational hypothesis. That is, only for children with characteristically low self-control was exposure to more positive parenting associated with fewer externalizing behavior problems, as rated by teachers, one year later.
Recommended Citation
Hatch, Virginia I., "Impact of Positive Parenting Behaviors and Children’s Self-Control on Levels of Externalizing Behavior Problems during Early Childhood" (2016). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 2257.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2257
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