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Relations Among Maternal Life Satisfaction, Shared Activities, and Child Well-Being
Maternal well-being is assumed to be associated with well-being of individual family members, optimal parenting practices, and positive developmental outcomes for children. The objective of this study was to examine the interplay between maternal well-being, parent-child activities, and the well-bei...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5974377/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29875714 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00739 |
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author | Richter, Nina Bondü, Rebecca Spiess, C. Katharina Wagner, Gert G. Trommsdorff, Gisela |
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description | Maternal well-being is assumed to be associated with well-being of individual family members, optimal parenting practices, and positive developmental outcomes for children. The objective of this study was to examine the interplay between maternal well-being, parent-child activities, and the well-being of 5- to 7-year-old children. In a sample of N = 291 mother-child dyads, maternal life satisfaction, the frequency of shared parent-child activities, as well as children’s self-regulation, prosocial behavior, and receptive vocabulary were assessed using several methods. Data were collected in a special study of the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), a representative longitudinal survey of private households in Germany. Using structural equation modeling, significant positive direct and indirect relations between maternal life satisfaction, frequency of shared parent-child activities, children’s self-regulation, prosocial behavior, and receptive vocabulary were found. The more satisfied the mother was, the more she shared activities with her child and the more the child acted prosocially. Furthermore, the higher the frequency of shared parent-child activities, the higher the child scored in all three analyzed indicators of children’s well-being: self-regulation, prosocial behavior, and receptive vocabulary. The current study supports the assumption of maternal well-being as the basis of positive parenting practices and child well-being. |
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spelling | pubmed-59743772018-06-06 Relations Among Maternal Life Satisfaction, Shared Activities, and Child Well-Being Richter, Nina Bondü, Rebecca Spiess, C. Katharina Wagner, Gert G. Trommsdorff, Gisela Front Psychol Psychology Maternal well-being is assumed to be associated with well-being of individual family members, optimal parenting practices, and positive developmental outcomes for children. The objective of this study was to examine the interplay between maternal well-being, parent-child activities, and the well-being of 5- to 7-year-old children. In a sample of N = 291 mother-child dyads, maternal life satisfaction, the frequency of shared parent-child activities, as well as children’s self-regulation, prosocial behavior, and receptive vocabulary were assessed using several methods. Data were collected in a special study of the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), a representative longitudinal survey of private households in Germany. Using structural equation modeling, significant positive direct and indirect relations between maternal life satisfaction, frequency of shared parent-child activities, children’s self-regulation, prosocial behavior, and receptive vocabulary were found. The more satisfied the mother was, the more she shared activities with her child and the more the child acted prosocially. Furthermore, the higher the frequency of shared parent-child activities, the higher the child scored in all three analyzed indicators of children’s well-being: self-regulation, prosocial behavior, and receptive vocabulary. The current study supports the assumption of maternal well-being as the basis of positive parenting practices and child well-being. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-05-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5974377/ /pubmed/29875714 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00739 Text en Copyright © 2018 Richter, Bondü, Spiess, Wagner and Trommsdorff. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Richter, Nina Bondü, Rebecca Spiess, C. Katharina Wagner, Gert G. Trommsdorff, Gisela Relations Among Maternal Life Satisfaction, Shared Activities, and Child Well-Being |
title | Relations Among Maternal Life Satisfaction, Shared Activities, and Child Well-Being |
title_full | Relations Among Maternal Life Satisfaction, Shared Activities, and Child Well-Being |
title_fullStr | Relations Among Maternal Life Satisfaction, Shared Activities, and Child Well-Being |
title_full_unstemmed | Relations Among Maternal Life Satisfaction, Shared Activities, and Child Well-Being |
title_short | Relations Among Maternal Life Satisfaction, Shared Activities, and Child Well-Being |
title_sort | relations among maternal life satisfaction, shared activities, and child well-being |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5974377/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29875714 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00739 |
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