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Parenting Self‐Construals of Mothers With a Serious Mental Illness: Efficacy, Burden, and Personal Growth 1
Author(s) -
Oyserman Daphna,
Bybee Deborah,
Mowbray Carol,
Kahng Sang Kyoung
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2004.tb01989.x
Subject(s) - psychology , self construal , construals , feeling , construal level theory , mental health , mental illness , developmental psychology , multilevel model , clinical psychology , context (archaeology) , parenting styles , self efficacy , social psychology , psychiatry , interdependence , paleontology , machine learning , political science , computer science , law , biology
We explored parenting self‐construals among mothers with serious mental illness (n = 379). Mothers reported feeling moderately positively about themselves as parents, more efficacious than inefficacious, more positive than negative, more valued than disvalued; but also at least somewhat restricted and burdened by motherhood. Factor analyses revealed 3 parenting self‐construal factors: efficacious, burdened, and parenting as a personal growth experience. In hierarchical regression analyses, parenting self‐construal factors significantly added to prediction of parenting behaviors and attitudes (nurturance, explanatory parenting style, and parenting stress), once demographic, mental health history, and current social context variables (support, stress, and current mental health) were taken into account. Maternal parenting self‐efficacy increased (while self‐construal of parenting as a burden decreased) positive parenting style.