TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Stability in Mother-Child Interactions from Infancy through Adolescence
JO  - Parenting: science and practice
A1  - Else-Quest, Nicole M.
A1  - Clark, Roseanne
A1  - Owen, Margaret Tresch
SP  - 280
EP  - 287
VL  - 11
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1529-5192
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2011.613724
ID  - ref1
ER  -