Factors Associated With Perceived Parenting Competence Among Special Needs Adoptive Mothers
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Anne C. Fletcher, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: The study reported here considered the nature of associations among children's behavior problems,
parenting stress, and mothers' feelings of competence. Seventy-two adoptive mothers
reported on their adopted children's behavior problems, their own parenting stress, and feelings of
competence. Parenting stress was found to mediate the association between children's attention
problems and mothers' feelings of competence. When children exhibited higher levels of attention
problems, their mothers felt more stress. In turn, when mothers experienced more parenting
stress, they felt less competent as parents. Parenting stress moderated the association between children's
internalizing behavior and mothers' feelings of competence. A negative relationship
between children's internalizing behavior and mothers' feelings of competence was stronger when
mothers reported more parenting stress than when they reported less parenting stress.
Factors Associated With Perceived Parenting Competence Among Special Needs Adoptive Mothers
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Families in Society; Apr-Jun 2006; 87, 2; Research Library pg. 249
- Language: English
- Date: 2006
- Keywords
- Stress, Mother and child, Parent confidence