@article{ref1,
title="Stability in Mother-Child Interactions from Infancy through Adolescence",
journal="Parenting: science and practice",
year="2011",
author="Else-Quest, Nicole M. and Clark, Roseanne and Owen, Margaret Tresch",
volume="11",
number="4",
pages="280-287",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: The current study examines homotypic stability in mother-child interactions, applying similar rating scales of mother-child interactions at 1 and 4.5 years, and heterotypic stability from 1 to 13 years and 4.5 to 13 years, using conceptually similar but not identical rating scales at age 13. <br><br>DESIGN: We coded videotaped mother-child interactions in 202 families when children were 1, 4.5, and 13 years of age during age-appropriate and developmentally salient structured tasks for relationship quality. <br><br>RESULTS: Multiple regression analyses controlled for the effects of child birth order and gender as well as maternal age and education. Maternal and dyadic, but not child, mother-child interaction qualities at 1 year significantly predicted similar or equivalent constructs at 4.5 and 13 years. Heterotypic stability from 1 to 13 years was partially or fully mediated by the same constructs at 4.5 years. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Maternal behaviors showed a pattern of homotypic and heterotypic stability, whereas dyadic behaviors were somewhat less stable. Child behaviors showed evidence of both homotypic and heterotypic instability.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1529-5192",
doi="10.1080/15295192.2011.613724",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2011.613724"
}