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- Title
Parenting practices as mediating variables between parents' psychopathology and oppositional defiant disorder in preschoolers.
- Authors
Trepat, Esther; Granero, Roser; Ezpeleta, Lourdes
- Abstract
Background: Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is very frequent in preschoolers. The severity and the long-term negative outcomes make the understanding of this disorder a priority. The goal in this study was to assess the mediating role of parenting practices in the relationship between parents' psychopathology and ODD in preschoolers. Method: A community sample of 622 children was assessed longitudinally at age 3 and age 5. Parents reported on children's psychopathology through a diagnostic interview, and on their own psychological state and parenting style through questionnaires. Results: At ages 3 and 5, corporal punishment mediated the relationships between mothers' anxiety-depression and ODD (in girls), between mothers' aggressive behavior and ODD (in boys), and between parents' rule-breaking and ODD both in boys and girls. For both sexes, there was a direct association between mothers' aggressive behavior score and ODD. The association between fathers' psychopathology and ODD was not mediated by the fathers' parenting practices. Fathers' anxiety-depression and aggressive behavior scores were directly associated with ODD. Conclusions: Parents' psychopathology must be explored and, in families where such psychopathology is a relevant variable, parenting practices must be addressed with a view to the prevention and treatment of children's ODD in the preschool years.
- Subjects
PARENTAL influences; PARENTS with intellectual disabilities; BEHAVIOR disorders in children; CHILD psychopathology; PATHOLOGICAL psychology; CONDUCT disorders in children; CHILD psychology; CHILDREN of parents with intellectual disabilities
- Publication
Psicothema, 2014, Vol 26, Issue 4, p497
- ISSN
0214-9915
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7334/psicothema2014.102