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Autonomy Support in Toddlerhood: Similarities and Contrasts Between Mothers and Fathers
Infant exploration often hinges on parental autonomy support (i.e., parental behaviors that support children’s goals, interests, and choices), a construct that is widely applied in family studies of school-age children and adolescents but less studied in infants and toddlers. Notable gaps concern th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6205245/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30372101 http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/fam0000450 |
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author | Hughes, Claire Lindberg, Anja Devine, Rory T. |
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description | Infant exploration often hinges on parental autonomy support (i.e., parental behaviors that support children’s goals, interests, and choices), a construct that is widely applied in family studies of school-age children and adolescents but less studied in infants and toddlers. Notable gaps concern the equivalence, similarities, and contrasts between mothers’ and fathers’ autonomy support and the correlates of individual differences in autonomy support. To address these underresearched topics, we conducted parallel home-based structured play observations of 195 infants (M(age) = 14.42 months, SD = .59) in dyadic interaction with mothers and fathers. Confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated measurement invariance across parent gender, enabling comparisons that revealed significantly moderately higher levels of autonomy support in mothers than in fathers. Individual differences in autonomy support were unrelated to either parental personality or child temperament, highlighting the potential importance of dyadic characteristics. Consistent with this view, whereas maternal autonomy support did not differ by child gender, fathers with sons displayed less autonomy support than did fathers with daughters. |
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spelling | pubmed-62052452018-10-30 Autonomy Support in Toddlerhood: Similarities and Contrasts Between Mothers and Fathers Hughes, Claire Lindberg, Anja Devine, Rory T. J Fam Psychol Family Processes and Support Infant exploration often hinges on parental autonomy support (i.e., parental behaviors that support children’s goals, interests, and choices), a construct that is widely applied in family studies of school-age children and adolescents but less studied in infants and toddlers. Notable gaps concern the equivalence, similarities, and contrasts between mothers’ and fathers’ autonomy support and the correlates of individual differences in autonomy support. To address these underresearched topics, we conducted parallel home-based structured play observations of 195 infants (M(age) = 14.42 months, SD = .59) in dyadic interaction with mothers and fathers. Confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated measurement invariance across parent gender, enabling comparisons that revealed significantly moderately higher levels of autonomy support in mothers than in fathers. Individual differences in autonomy support were unrelated to either parental personality or child temperament, highlighting the potential importance of dyadic characteristics. Consistent with this view, whereas maternal autonomy support did not differ by child gender, fathers with sons displayed less autonomy support than did fathers with daughters. American Psychological Association 2018-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6205245/ /pubmed/30372101 http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/fam0000450 Text en © 2018 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article has been published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Copyright for this article is retained by the author(s). Author(s) grant(s) the American Psychological Association the exclusive right to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher. |
spellingShingle | Family Processes and Support Hughes, Claire Lindberg, Anja Devine, Rory T. Autonomy Support in Toddlerhood: Similarities and Contrasts Between Mothers and Fathers |
title | Autonomy Support in Toddlerhood: Similarities and Contrasts Between Mothers and Fathers |
title_full | Autonomy Support in Toddlerhood: Similarities and Contrasts Between Mothers and Fathers |
title_fullStr | Autonomy Support in Toddlerhood: Similarities and Contrasts Between Mothers and Fathers |
title_full_unstemmed | Autonomy Support in Toddlerhood: Similarities and Contrasts Between Mothers and Fathers |
title_short | Autonomy Support in Toddlerhood: Similarities and Contrasts Between Mothers and Fathers |
title_sort | autonomy support in toddlerhood: similarities and contrasts between mothers and fathers |
topic | Family Processes and Support |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6205245/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30372101 http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/fam0000450 |
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