Continuity, Stability, and Concordance of Socioemotional Functioning in Mothers and their Sibling Children.

ABSTRACT: This within-family longitudinal study accomplishes a novel multivariate assessment of socioemotional parenting cognitions and practices in mothers and their sibling children's socioemotional behaviors. Mothers participated with their 20-month-old firstborns and again, an average of 3 years later, with their 20-month-old secondborns (55 families, 165 participants). Continuity and stability in maternal cognitions and practices between the two times, and similarities, differences, and correspondences in siblings' behaviors, are assessed and compared. Maternal socioemotional parenting cognitions were continuous in mean level and stable in individual differences across siblings; maternal socioemotional practices were continuous in mean level but unstable in individual differences. Firstborns we

SUBMITTER: Bornstein MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6349259 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature