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Tuerk, Elena Hontoria; Loper, Ann Booker – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2006
Incarcerated mothers (n = 357) at a maximum-security prison participated in a study of the relationship between contact and parenting stress, using the parenting stress index for incarcerated women (PSI-IW; Houck & Loper, 2002). The study examined contact before incarceration and the frequency of telephone, letter, and visitation contact…
Descriptors: Letters (Correspondence), Institutionalized Persons, Mothers, Correctional Institutions
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Lucey, Rose; Fox, Robert A.; Byrnes, Judith B. – Journal of Family Social Work, 2006
The purpose of this exploratory study was to compare the parenting behavior, stress and support of foster mothers and biological mothers of young children. A sample of 60 mothers of young children (30 foster mothers, 30 biological mothers) completed measures of parenting behavior, parenting stress, child problem behaviors, and perceived social…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Rearing, Young Children, Individual Characteristics