Does Parental Mood or Efficacy Mediate the Influence of Environmental Chaos Upon Parenting Behavior?
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Project MUSE in Merrill-Palmer Quarterly
- Vol. 48 (2), 182-201
- https://doi.org/10.1353/mpq.2002.0006
Abstract
Using repeated observational and questionnaire data from 57 infants and their parents, lower parental efficacy perceptions and higher parental negative mood states were evaluated as potential mediators to explain the adverse influence of environmental chaos on parenting. Factor analysis revealed noise- and crowding-chaos dimensions in the home. Higher scores on both chaos dimensions were related to less responsive and stimulating parenting. Home chaos was generally unrelated to parental ratings of distressed mood, but parents reported a lower sense of efficacy as noise level in home increased. However, our data did not support predicted links between measures of parenting and efficacy. The overall pattern of results indicates that neither parental mood nor efficacy appears to mediate relations between home chaos and parenting behavior.Keywords
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