title: Trajectories of parenting and child negative emotionality during infancy and toddlerhood: a longitudinal analysis.
abstract: The current longitudinal study examined trajectories of child negative emotionality, parenting efficacy, and overreactive parenting among 382 adoptive families during infancy and toddlerhood. Data were collected from adoptive parents when the children were 9-, 18-, and 27-month-old. Latent growth curve modeling indicated age-related increases in child negative emotionality and overreactive parenting for adoptive fathers and adoptive mothers (AM), and decreases in parent efficacy among AM. Increases in child negative emotionality were also associated with increases in parent overreactivity and decreases in maternal efficacy. Mothers' and fathers' developmental patterns were linked within but not across parenting domains. Limitations and directions for future research are discussed.
authors: Oregon State University-Cascades Campus, USA. shannon.lipscomb@osucascades.edu
authors: Shannon Tierney
authors: ST
authors: Lipscomb
authors: Leslie D
authors: LD
authors: Leve
authors: Gordon T
authors: GT
authors: Harold
authors: Jenae M
authors: JM
authors: Neiderhiser
authors: Daniel S
authors: DS
authors: Shaw
authors: Xiaojia
authors: X
authors: Ge
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Reiss
mesh_terms: D000300:Adoption / Q000523:psychology*; D000367:Age Factors; D002668:Child Rearing / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004644:Emotions; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007508:Irritable Mood; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D002666:Psychology, Child; D013598:Systems Theory; D013694:Temperament