2-133 - Child Effects on Parenting from Infancy to Adolescence

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

Theoretical models of development have long emphasized the importance of bi-directional influences in parent-child interactions and relationships. However, despite increasing evidence that infants and children impact their parents’ behaviors and parenting style, a primary focus on unidirectional effects of parents on children remains dominant. Examining and acknowledging the ways in which infants and children influence their parents have important implications for understanding risk factors for atypical development and psychopathology, as well as for the development and implementation of interventions. In light of the continued relative neglect of considering child effects on parents, the present symposium was designed to highlight research that considers transaction relationships between parents and children across the lifespan. Paper 1 uses a cross-lagged model to examine the bidirectional relations between young infants’ response to the classic face-to-face still-face paradigm and maternal parenting behaviors. The second paper examines co-regulation of emotion between parents and their toddlers with autism spectrum disorder, with a focus on how changes in toddler’s emotion regulation strategies predict change in parents’ use of co-regulation strategies over time. Paper 3 examines longitudinal transactional relations among control-related parenting strategies and children’s compliance and defiance across three time points from toddlerhood to early childhood. Finally, the fourth presentation tests reciprocal effects between aggressive parent behaviors and girls’ oppositionality, antagonism, and irritability between ages 5 and 16 years. Together, these papers provide striking evidence suggesting that infants and children influence their parents from the first months of life through early adulthood.

Sub Unit

• Parenting & Parent-Child Relationships

Chair

• Jessie Northrup, University of Pittsburgh

Individual Presentations

• A Transactional Model of Infant Still-Face Response and Maternal Parenting Behavior in the First Year - Presenting Author: Jessie Northrup, University of Pittsburgh; Non-Presenting Author: Julia Ridley, University of Pittsburgh; Non-Presenting Author: Katie Foley, University of Pittsburgh; Non-Presenting Author: Eydie Moses-Kolko, University of Pittsburgh; Non-Presenting Author: Kate Keenan, University of Chicago; Non-Presenting Author: Alison Hipwell, University of Pittsburgh

• Exploring Change in Parent-Child Co-Regulation Over Time in Parents and Toddlers with ASD - Presenting Author: Amanda Dimachkie, University of California, Los Angeles; Non-Presenting Author: Amanda Gulsrud, University of California, Los Angeles; Non-Presenting Author: Connie Kasari, University of California, Los Angeles

• Longitudinal Transactional Relations Among Young Children’s Defiance, Committed Compliance, and Maternal Assertive Control - Presenting Author: Xiaoye Xu, Arizona State University; Non-Presenting Author: Tracy Spinrad, Arizona State University; Non-Presenting Author: Nancy Eisenberg, Arizona State University

• Reciprocity in Undesirable Parent–Child Behavior? Verbal Aggression, Corporal Punishment, and Girls’ Oppositional Defiant Symptoms - Presenting Author: Olivia Juliette Derella, University of Connecticut; Non-Presenting Author: Jeffrey Burke, University of Connecticut; Non-Presenting Author: Stephanie D. Stepp, University of Pittsburgh; Non-Presenting Author: Alison Hipwell, University of Pittsburgh