Leveraging Innovative Person-centered Approaches to Study the Antecedents and Consequences of Parenting and Child Behaviors

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Abstract

Recent developmental literature emphasizes the multidimensional, multifaceted nature of family dynamics and their influences on children’s behavioral outcomes (e.g., Dalimonte-Merckling & Brophy-Herb, 2019). Person-centered approaches have been increasingly used to study the role of integrative patterns of family interactions rather than individual variables on child development. Person-centered approaches can also reveal important heterogeneities within groups that were previously stereotyped as homogeneous. This symposium leverages person-centered approaches in innovative ways to study the cultural, contextual, and parental antecedents of parenting practices and child behaviors in Chinese and American samples.
Paper 1 examines contextual, cultural, and individual antecedents of Chinese immigrant mothers’ parenting profiles using a machine learning approach and the longitudinal associations between parenting profiles and child internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Paper 2 combines Chinese parents’ parenting practices and children's aggression, withdrawal, and prosociality as indicators of family profiles to study the covariation of parenting practices and child outcomes. Paper 3 investigates American fathers’ engagement and aggravation trajectories at an early child age and their associations with transitions in children’s latent profiles of self-regulation, social competence, perseverance, and delinquency in middle childhood. Paper 4 combines daily diary and person-centered approaches to study the contributions of Chinese mothers’ observation of daily child movement behaviors (i.e., physical activity, screen time, and sleep duration) on children’s emotion regulation. Together, these four studies reflect the multifaceted and heterogeneous nature of the family dynamics in diverse populations, and their conceptual, methodological, and practical implications will be integrated and discussed.

Sub Unit

• Family Context & Processes

Chairs

• Qingyang Liu, Syracuse University

• Huiguang Ren, University of Maryland - Baltimore County

Individual Presentations

• Culture or Resource? Disentangling Contextual Correlates and Child Outcomes of Chinese Immigrant Mothers’ Parenting Profiles - Presenting Author: Huiguang Ren, University of Maryland - Baltimore County; Charissa S. L. Cheah, University of Maryland - Baltimore County; Bumo Zhang, University of Maryland - Baltimore County

• A Latent Profile Analysis of Joint Chinese Parenting Effects on Child Aggression, Withdrawal, and Prosociality - Chongming Yang, Family, Home and Social Sciences Research Support Center; Chris L Porter, Brigham Young University; Presenting Author: Craig H Hart, Brigham Young University; David A Nelson, Brigham Young University; Wen Gao, Liaoning Normal University; Nan Zhou, Capital Normal University

• Linking Early Fathering Trajectories to Child Social Behavioral Profiles in Middle Childhood - Presenting Author: Ying Xu, Syracuse University; Qingyang Liu, Syracuse University; Gabriel J Merrin, Syracuse University; Rachel A Razza, Syracuse University

• Movement Behavior and Emotion Regulation in Young Children: A Daily Diary Study - Presenting Author: Sha Xie, Shenzhen University; Xinli Chi; Mengya Xia, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; Shiyun Chen, University College London; Mengyun He, Shenzhen University; Hong Yin, Shenzhen University