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Direct linkKristin Strauss; Michela Servadio; Giovanni Valeri; Laura Casula; Stefano Vicari; Leonardo Fava – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Introduction: The present study build on previous research that found a bidirectional relation of parenting stress and negative behavioural outcomes in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Aim: To investigate the mediating role of parenting self-efficacy in the relationship of parenting stress and children's behavioural and emotional problems.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Stress Variables, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Self Efficacy
Lavelli, Manuela; Stefana, Alberto; Lee, Sang Han; Beebe, Beatrice – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Very few studies have assessed infant capacity for bidirectional, contingent communication at birth, and to our knowledge there are none with preterm infants in the neonatal period. Presence versus absence of such interactive contingency makes a difference for our theories of development. We examined whether preterm infants can contingently…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Neonates, Hospitalized Children, Mothers
Smorti, Martina; Sica, Luigia Simona; Costa, Sebastiano; Biagioni, Silvia; Liga, Francesca – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
In the Italian context, parental bonding has great relevance in promoting satisfaction of emerging adults' psychological needs, impacting their wellbeing, also in terms of interpersonal sensitivity. Aims: to analyse, in 497 emerging adults: the direct influence of maternal and paternal bonding on young interpersonal sensitivity and life…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries, Young Adults
Merlino-Perkins, Rose; Martinez, Jose; Barbagallo-Gregory, Carmen; Barbagallo, Antonio – College Student Journal, 2020
"Merlino-Perkins Father-Daughter Relationship Inventory" (Perkins, 2008), written in a woman's voice, provides counselors with a vehicle that helps women awaken subtle dynamics unique to their childhood father relationships. Accordingly, with counselor guidance, women have the opportunity to grieve their past, and celebrate what may be…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Fathers, Daughters, Translation
Ginevra, Maria Cristina; Di Maggio, Ilaria; Santilli, Sara; Sgaramella, Teresa Maria; Nota, Laura; Soresi, Salvatore – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2018
Background: Parents of children with intellectual disability (ID) have been found to be more likely to experience lower levels of life satisfaction than parents of typically developing children as a result of the increased challenges they experience. Based on a life design approach, which emphasises the role of career adaptability and resilience…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Life Satisfaction, Children, Parent Child Relationship
Carone, Nicola; Lingiardi, Vittorio; Chirumbolo, Antonio; Baiocco, Roberto – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Forty Italian gay father families formed by surrogacy were compared with 40 Italian lesbian mother families formed by donor insemination, all with a child aged 3 to 9 years. Standardized interview, observational, and questionnaire measures of parenting quality, parent-child relationships, stigmatization, and children's adjustment were administered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homosexuality, Fathers, Mothers
Ionio, Chiara; Mascheroni, Eleonora; Banfi, Annamaria; Olivari, Maria Giulia; Colombo, Caterina; Confalonieri, Emanuela; Lista, Gianluca – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
This study aims to evaluate the influence of fathers' negative feelings, parenting stress and post-traumatic symptomatology experienced after the premature birth of their infant on mother-child interaction and on infant's development in the perinatal period. Forty-five fathers and 45 mothers of preterm infants (GA = 30.25 ± 2.95; birth weight =…
Descriptors: Fathers, Negative Attitudes, Premature Infants, Parent Child Relationship
Cameron, Catherine Ann; Pinto, Giuliana; Hancock, Roger; Tapanya, Sombat – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
Fathers' interactions with their young children are understudied. Variations between families in the masculine nurturance of toddlers can be expected, depending on personal characteristics, gender, family structures, and cultural contexts in which they are situated. This is a qualitative study, focusing on probing the nature of the exchanges…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Fathers, Grandparents
Lansford, Jennifer E.; Godwin, Jennifer; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bornstein, Marc H.; Chang, Lei; Chen, Bin-Bin; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Alampay, Liane Peña; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Zelli, Arnaldo – Developmental Psychology, 2018
To examine whether the cultural normativeness of parents' beliefs and behaviors moderates the links between those beliefs and behaviors and youths' adjustment, mothers, fathers, and children (N = 1,298 families) from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States) were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, Adjustment (to Environment), Cross Cultural Studies
Putnick, Diane L.; Bornstein, Marc H.; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Malone, Patrick S.; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Zelli, Arnaldo; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bombi, Anna Silvia; Chang, Lei; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Oburu, Paul – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2015
Background: It is generally believed that parental rejection of children leads to child maladaptation. However, the specific effects of perceived parental acceptance-rejection on diverse domains of child adjustment and development have been incompletely documented, and whether these effects hold across diverse populations and for mothers and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Fathers, Rejection (Psychology), Parent Child Relationship
Camodeca, Marina; Taraschi, Emanuela – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2015
This work considers a still uninvestigated research issue-namely, whether parents' moral disengagement affected preschool children's externalizing behavior. Participants were 245 children (126 girls and 119 boys) aged 3-6 years. Parents' moral disengagement was assessed in terms of their externalization of blame and their indifference in reactions…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Child Relationship, Educational Practices, Moral Values
Addessi, Anna Rita – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
This paper deals with an action-research project currently being undertaken at the University of Bologna concerning the observation of music making during daily routines with under-four children during diaper change, bedtime and free-play. Several observational protocols were carried out in natural and spontaneous contexts. The data analysis was…
Descriptors: Play, Mothers, Musicians, Infants
Peer reviewedBest, Deborah L.; And Others – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1994
Examines gender differences in parent-child interactions and the similarities of these patterns in France, Germany, and Italy, using 29, 27, and 29 parent-child dyads, respectively. Gender and country differences were found. Although gender generally influences parent and child behaviors, culture modifies the way that these differences are…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
Download full textMusatti, Tullia – 1993
This paper examines child care quality and the effects of in-home and out-of-home child care on children's quality of life, focusing on the results of a 1992 study of child care in northern and central Italy. The study surveyed the parents of 2,158 toddlers cared for exclusively in the home and 2,346 toddlers attending public day care centers. It…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Day Care, Day Care Centers, Day Care Effects
