RT Journal Article
T1 Parenting behaviors of mothers and fathers of young children with intellectual disability evaluated in a natural context
A1 Vilaseca, R.
A1 Rivero, M.
A1 Ferrer, F.
A1 Bersabé-Morán, Rosa María
K1 Niños con discapacidad - Cuidado
K1 Padres e hijos
AB The aims of this study were to analyze the interactions of mothers and fathers with their children with intellectual disabilities, focusing on certain parental behaviors previously identified as promoting child development, and to explore the relations between parenting and some sociodemographic variables. A sample of 87 pairs of mothers and fathers of the same children were recruited from Early Intervention Centers. The children (58 male and 29 female) were aged 20–47 months. Most of the families (92%) were from the province of Barcelona(Spain), and the remaining 8% were from the other provinces of Catalonia (Spain). Parenting behaviors, divided into four domains (Affection, Responsiveness, Encouragement, and Teaching) were assessed from self-recorded videotapes, in accordance with the validated Spanish version of the PICCOLO (Parenting Interactions with Children: Checklist of ObservationsLinked to Outcomes). Parents were administered a sociodemographic questionnaire. The results revealed strong similarities between mothers’ and fathers’ parental behaviors. Mothers and fathers were more likely to engage in affectionate behavior than in teaching behavior. Only maternal teaching presented a significant positive relation to the child’s age. With respect to the child’s gender, no differences were observed in mothers’ parenting. Conversely, fathers scored significantly higher in Responsiveness, Encouragement and Teaching (and had higher total parenting scores) when interacting with boys. The severity of the child’s ID had a statistically significant effect only on fathers’ Teaching, which showed lower mean scores in the severe ID group than in the moderate and mild ID groups. Teaching also presented a significant positive relation to mother’s age, but father’s age was not related toany parenting domain (...)
PB Public Library of Science (PLoS)
YR 2020
FD 2020-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29854
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29854
LA eng
NO Vilaseca, R., Rivero, M., Ferrer, F., & Bersabé, R. M. (2020) Parenting behaviors of mothers and fathers of young children with intellectual disability evaluated in a natural context.  PLoS One, 15(10), e0240320. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240320
NO This research was supported by a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the European RegionalDevelopment Fund (Project PSI2015-63627-R). All authors were members of the project teams. We appreciate the financial aid from the University of Barcelona and the University of Malaga for publishing open access. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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