Parent and Child Reports of Parenting Behaviors: Agreement Among a Longitudinal Study of Drug Court Participants

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Melissa C. Osborne¹  Betty S. Lai²  Samantha S. Aubé²  Kate Guastaferro³  Wendy P. Guastaferro⁴  Daniel J. Whitaker⁵ 

[1] Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States;Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College, Boston, MA, United States;Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Health and Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States;School of Criminology and Criminology, College of Social Work and Criminal Justice, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, United States;School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States;

关键词: concordance;    parent-child relationship;    parental substance use;    mental health;    drug court;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyt.2021.667593

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Identifying ways to support children of parents with substance use disorder is a critical public health issue. This study focused on the parent-child relationship as a critical catalyst in child resilience. Using data from a longitudinal cohort study, the aims of this study were to: (1 ) examine the agreement between parent and child reports of parenting behaviors and (2 ) describe the association between agreement and child mental health. Participants were 50 parent-child dyads that included parents enrolled in an adult drug court and their children, aged 8–18. Overall, agreement (i.e., concordance) between parent and child reports of parenting was slight to fair. Parents reported their parenting behaviors to be slightly more positive than how children rated the same behaviors in the areas of: involvement, 0.53 (SD = 0.80); positive parenting, 0.66 (SD = 0.87), and monitoring behaviors, 0.46 (SD = 0.90). Parents also rated themselves, in comparison to their children's reports, as using less inconsistent discipline, −0.33 (SD = 1.00), and less corporal punishment, 0.13 (SD = 1.01). Agreement was related to some, but not all, child mental health outcomes. When parents rating their parenting as more positive than their child reported, that had a negative effect on child self-esteem and personal adjustment. Contrary to hypotheses, we did not find a significant relationship between positive parenting and internalizing problems. Findings have implications for obtaining parent and child reports of parenting within the drug court system, and for identifying children at higher risk for externalizing problems.

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