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3-120 - Bringing order to chaos: The role of household chaos in parenting
Sat, April 8, 12:30 to 2:00pm, Austin Convention Center, Meeting Room 13ASession Type: Paper Symposium
Integrative Statement
Previous research has shown that household chaos (i.e. noise, material disorganization, crowding, and lack of routines and regularities) is related to more negative parenting practices and in turn also to less optimal child outcomes (Evans et al., 2005, Wachs, 2005). However, the direction of this effect and the mechanisms behind it are not completely clear. This symposium aims to answer the question why and how household chaos relates to parenting, and it incorporates research on household chaos and parenting from eleven different countries. Besides parenting variables, such as parents’ emotional availability or harsh parenting, other related variables such as neighborhood characteristics, parental sleep, and sensory sensitivity were also taken into account in the studies presented. Children of various developmental ages –from infancy to youth– and fathers as well as mothers participated in these studies. In one of the studies participants were women who do not have children (yet). Chaos was operationalized in various ways: through (multi-informant) self-report, observations, or a manipulation in an experimental design. Results highlight that household chaos is related to less positive parenting, and show that neighborhood danger, parental sleep and sensory sensitivity play a role in this relation. The role of these variables suggests that household chaos may not have similar detrimental effects on the parenting of all parents. By bringing together research from various countries, focusing on various aspects of parenting and household chaos, with various samples, measurement instruments and research methods, this symposium provides a profound overview of research on household chaos and parenting.
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Parenting practices and emotional availability in relation to household chaos in infancy - Presenting Author: Corey Jean Whitesell, Pennsylvania State University; Douglas Teti, Pennsylvania State University
Household chaos, sleep deficits, and parenting in mothers of toddlers - Presenting Author: Maureen Elizabeth McQuillan, Indiana University Bloomington; Shereen El Mallah, University of Massachusetts Amherst; John E. Bates, Indiana University; Kirby Deater-Deckard, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
Household chaos, neighborhood danger, and parenting in ten countries - Presenting Author: Jennifer Lansford, Duke University; Kirby Deater-Deckard, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA; Jennifer Godwin, Duke University; Laura Di Giunta, Sapienza University of Rome; Kenneth A. Dodge, Duke University; Patrick Malone, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA; Paul Oburu, Maseno University, Maseno, Kenya; Concetta Pastorelli, Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy; Ann Skinner, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA; Emma Sorbring, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden; Laurence Steinberg, Temple University; Sombat Tapanya, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand; Liane Peña Alampay, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines; Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado, Universidad San Buenaventura, Medellín, Colombia; Arnaldo Zelli, University of Rome “Foro Italico,” Rome, Italy; Suha Al-Hassan, Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan, and Emirates College for Advanced Education, Abu Dhabi,; Dario Bacchini, Second University of Naples, Caserta, Italy; Anna Silvia Bombi, Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy; Marc Bornstein, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, USA; Lei Chang, University of Macau, China; Bin-Bin Chen, Fudan University
An experimental approach to studying the effects of household chaos - Presenting Author: Mariëlle Prevoo, Leiden University; Fenne F. Bodrij, Leiden University, The Netherlands; Suzanne M. Andeweg, Leiden University, The Netherlands; Marinus Van IJzendoorn, Leiden University; Lenneke Alink, Leiden University