Understanding discipline in families of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a structural equation model.
One hundred and fifty-five mothers of children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) completed a semi-structured interview, the Parenting Stress Index Questionnaire (Abidin, 1990), to evaluate parenting stress. The Parenting Scale (Arnold, O'Leary, Wolff & Acker, 1993) was also administered to measure dysfunctional discipline strategies. Structural equation modeling was used to test a model in which the independent variables were the Child's Characteristics and the Socio-Educational Status of his or her family; intermediate variables were Parenting Stress concerning the Child Domain and concerning the Parent Domain; and the dependent variable was Parental Discipline. The results confirm our hypotheses. Interventions in these families should therefore incorporate a component focused on Parenting Stress (in both the Child Domain and the Parent Domain), as a determinant of Parental Discipline.
Miranda
Ana
A
Universitat de València, Facultad de Psioclogía, Dpto de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación, Avda Blasco Ibañez, 21, 46010 Valencia, Spain. ana.miranda@uv.es
Grau
Dolores
D
Rosel
Jesús
J
Meliá
Amanda
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D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000523:psychology*; D019958:Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002668:Child Rearing; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015897:Comorbidity; D017281:Cost of Illness; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D004493:Education; D019260:Expressed Emotion; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D010541:Permissiveness; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013030:Spain