A moderated transactional link between child behavioral problems and parenting: A longitudinal- and behavioral- genetic study

Wang, Zhe

A moderated transactional link between child behavioral problems and parenting: A longitudinal- and behavioral- genetic study

dc.contributor.author	Wang, Zhe	en
dc.contributor.committeechair	Deater-Deckard, Kirby	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Kim-Spoon, Jungmeen	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	White, Bradley A.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Friedman, Bruce H.	en
dc.contributor.department	Psychology	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-11-08T07:00:08Z	en
dc.date.available	2014-11-08T07:00:08Z	en
dc.date.issued	2013-05-16	en
dc.description.abstract	Parenting behaviors and a variety of behavioral problems in children covary. The current study first aimed to examine how and why parenting and child behavioral problems are linked in middle childhood. In particular, a longitudinal design (1364 children assessed from 54 months to 5th grade) was used to examine whether the developmental link between parenting and child behavioral problems were reciprocal. A twin design (131 pairs of monozygotic and 173 pairs of dizygotic twins assessed from 6 to 8 years of age on average) was used to examine the underlying genetic and nongenetic etiology of this link. In addition, using these two samples, the current study also aimed to examine whether parental attributes, including negative affect, executive function, and social cognitive factors, modulate the link between parenting and child behavioral problems. Results across these two studies suggested that parenting and child behavioral problems mutually influenced the development of each other over time, potentially through both evocative and passive gene-environment correlation processes and environmental transmissions. In addition, maternal dispositional anger modulated the effects of child behavioral problems on changes in maternal parenting quality over time. Finally, implications of the current study were also discussed.	en
dc.description.degree	Ph. D.	en
dc.format.medium	ETD	en
dc.identifier.other	vt_gsexam:725	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/50824	en
dc.publisher	Virginia Tech	en
dc.rights	In Copyright	en
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	en
dc.subject	parenting	en
dc.subject	behavioral problems	en
dc.subject	longitudinal	en
dc.subject	behavioral genetics	en
dc.title	A moderated transactional link between child behavioral problems and parenting: A longitudinal- and behavioral- genetic study	en
dc.type	Dissertation	en
thesis.degree.discipline	Psychology	en
thesis.degree.grantor	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	en
thesis.degree.level	doctoral	en
thesis.degree.name	Ph. D.	en