Anna Allmann

Type

Text

Type

Dissertation

Advisor

Klein, Daniel N. | Eaton, Nicholas | Carlson, Gabrielle | London, Bonita.

Date

2017-08-01

Keywords

Clinical psychology

Department

Department of Clinical Psychology.

Language

en_US

Source

This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/11401/78128

Publisher

The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.

Format

application/pdf

Abstract

That mothers’ behaviors impact their children psychologically is well established; however, much less is known about how children’s symptoms of psychopathology impact their mothers’ parenting style and how parenting and child symptoms relate transactionally to one another over a span of several years. Additionally, relatively little research addresses the role of fathers’ parenting in the development of symptoms of psychopathology and, conversely, how children may elicit certain types of parenting from fathers. In this study, data was collected from 491 families on mothers’ and fathers’ parenting styles (authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and overprotective) and children’s symptoms of psychopathology (ADHD, ODD, depression, and anxiety) when children were age 3, 6, and 9. Cross-lagged panel analyses revealed that parents and children impact one another in a bidirectional way over the course of the six years studied. This study suggests that child symptoms may compound over time partially because they decrease exposure to adaptive, and increase exposure to maladaptive parenting styles. Likewise, maladaptive parenting may continue to increase over time due to the persistence of child symptoms. | 56 pages

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