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Caregiver social support and child toilet training in rural Odisha, India: What types of support facilitate training and how?

Studies show positive impacts of social support on childcare practices, but there is limited research on child toilet training. Social support with toilet training may be especially important for rural Indian caregivers as this is a new childcare practice for many and mothers face an already demandi...

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Autores principales: Sclar, Gloria D., Mosler, Hans‐Joachim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9297906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34668329
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12311
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description Studies show positive impacts of social support on childcare practices, but there is limited research on child toilet training. Social support with toilet training may be especially important for rural Indian caregivers as this is a new childcare practice for many and mothers face an already demanding workload. The aim of this study was to examine the role of social support in toilet training using mediation and conditional process analyses. We surveyed 570 caregivers of children <5 years old living in rural Odisha, India. We found certain types of support aid toilet training through three mechanisms: directly, by improving self‐efficacy, and by buffering against stress. Informational and instrumental support had a positive direct effect on toilet training while emotional support had no effect. Instrumental support also aided toilet training indirectly through bolstering a caregiver's perceived self‐efficacy. These effects of instrumental support were not moderated by the caregiver's support network size. Additionally, we found perceived stress had a negative indirect effect on caregivers' toilet training efforts through diminishing self‐efficacy, but this effect was buffered (i.e. moderated) by social support. These findings offer useful programmatic insights and expand the evidence‐base on how social support functions to another childcare practice and cultural context.
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spelling pubmed-92979062022-07-21 Caregiver social support and child toilet training in rural Odisha, India: What types of support facilitate training and how? Sclar, Gloria D. Mosler, Hans‐Joachim Appl Psychol Health Well Being Original Articles Studies show positive impacts of social support on childcare practices, but there is limited research on child toilet training. Social support with toilet training may be especially important for rural Indian caregivers as this is a new childcare practice for many and mothers face an already demanding workload. The aim of this study was to examine the role of social support in toilet training using mediation and conditional process analyses. We surveyed 570 caregivers of children <5 years old living in rural Odisha, India. We found certain types of support aid toilet training through three mechanisms: directly, by improving self‐efficacy, and by buffering against stress. Informational and instrumental support had a positive direct effect on toilet training while emotional support had no effect. Instrumental support also aided toilet training indirectly through bolstering a caregiver's perceived self‐efficacy. These effects of instrumental support were not moderated by the caregiver's support network size. Additionally, we found perceived stress had a negative indirect effect on caregivers' toilet training efforts through diminishing self‐efficacy, but this effect was buffered (i.e. moderated) by social support. These findings offer useful programmatic insights and expand the evidence‐base on how social support functions to another childcare practice and cultural context. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-10-19 2022-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9297906/ /pubmed/34668329 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12311 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Applied Psychology: Health and Well‐Being published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Association of Applied Psychology. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Caregiver social support and child toilet training in rural Odisha, India: What types of support facilitate training and how?
title_full_unstemmed Caregiver social support and child toilet training in rural Odisha, India: What types of support facilitate training and how?
title_short Caregiver social support and child toilet training in rural Odisha, India: What types of support facilitate training and how?
title_sort caregiver social support and child toilet training in rural odisha, india: what types of support facilitate training and how?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9297906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34668329
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12311
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