Family resources (i.e. household income and spouse support), parenting challenges (i.e. number of children, difficulty finding reliable child care, and child characteristics), work rewards (i.e. work interest) and work demands (i.e. hours and work overload) were tested as predictors of parenting rol
Efficacy and social support as predictors of parenting stress among families in poverty
✍ Scribed by H. Abigail Raikes; Ross A. Thompson
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 247 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0163-9641
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✦ Synopsis
Using a sample of low-income mothers enrolled in Early Head Start (n ϭ 65), this study tested the hypothesis that parenting stress is affected by social support and self-efficacy, in addition to family risk status and family income. Specifically, it was proposed that social support and self-efficacy are psychological resources that are associated with lower parenting stress levels, and would moderate the impact of family income on parenting stress. A significant proportion of variance in parenting stress was explained by self-efficacy, family risk, and the interaction of self-efficacy and family income; family income alone was not a significant predictor of parenting stress levels. Mothers higher in self-efficacy had lower levels of parenting stress, and income was less associated with parenting stress levels for mothers high in self-efficacy. Social support was not associated with lower parenting stress levels, nor did social support moderate the effect of income on parenting stress. Family risk was also a strong and reliable predictor of parenting stress, suggesting that family circumstances are perhaps better predictors of parenting stress levels than income alone. These findings suggest that parenting stress among lowincome parents should be viewed as a function of psychological, as well as financial, resources.
RESUMEN: Usando un grupo muestra de madres de bajos recursos econo ´micos matriculadas en el programa Early Head Start (Un comienzo temprano), (nϭ65), este estudio puso a prueba la hipo ´tesis de que la tensio ´n de la crianza se ve afectada por el apoyo social y la autoeficacia, en adicio ´n a las condiciones de riesgos familiares y entradas econo ´micas de la familia. Se propuso especı ´ficamente que el apoyo social y la autoeficacia son recursos sicolo ´gicos que se asocian con niveles bajos de la tensio ´n producida por la crianza, y por lo tanto moderarı ´an el impacto que las entradas econo ´micas familiares tienen sobre dicha tensio ´n. Una proporcio ´n significativa de las variaciones en cuanto a la tensio ´n producida por la crianza fue explicada por la autoeficacia, el riesgo familiar, ası ´como por la interaccio ´n entre autoeficacia y las entradas econo ´micas de la familia. Las entradas econo ´micas solas no predijeron significativamente los niveles de tensio ´n producidos por la crianza. Las madres con un ma ´s alto nivel de autoeficacia tenı ´an niveles ma ´s bajos de tensio ´n en la crianza, y las entradas econo ´micas fueron menos asociadas con la tensio ´n de la crianza en los casos de madres con un alto nivel de autoeficacia. No se asocio ´el apoyo social con los bajos niveles de tensio ´n causada por la crianza, ni tampoco el apoyo social sirvio ´de moderador del efecto que las entradas econo ´micas tienen en la tensio ´n. El riesgo familiar fue tambie ´n un fuerte factor de prediccio ´n de la tensio ´n, lo cual sugiere que las circunstancias familiares quiza ´s predicen mejor los niveles de tensio ´n que las entradas econo ´micas por sı ´solas. Estos resultados sugieren que la
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