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Associations between Positive Parenting Practices and Child Externalizing Behavior in Underserved Latino Immigrant Families
Author(s) -
Holtrop Kendal,
McNeil Smith Sharde',
Scott Jenna C.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/famp.12105
Subject(s) - immigration , intervention (counseling) , psychology , psychological intervention , developmental psychology , child discipline , positive parenting , population , clinical psychology , parenting styles , poison control , suicide prevention , medicine , psychiatry , environmental health , archaeology , history
This study examined whether five specific parenting practices (i.e., monitoring, discipline, skill encouragement, problem solving, and positive involvement) were associated with reduced child externalizing behaviors among a sample of Latino immigrant families. It utilized baseline data from 83 Latino couples with children participating in a larger randomized controlled trial of a culturally adapted parenting intervention. Results reveal that monitoring, discipline, skill encouragement, and problem solving each made independent contributions to the prediction of child externalizing behavior, although not all in the expected direction. Further analyses examining mothers and fathers separately suggest that mother‐reported monitoring and father‐reported discipline practices uniquely contributed to these findings. These results may have important implications for prevention and clinical intervention efforts with Latino immigrant families, including the cultural adaptation and implementation of parenting interventions with this underserved population.