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Perceived maternal disapproval of friends: How mothers shape and respond to child and friend adjustment problems

The present study examines relations between adjustment problems and perceptions of maternal disapproval of friends in a sample of Lithuanian public middle-school students. The participants (ages 10 to 14) were 284 children (148 boys, 136 girls) who were involved in 142 stable friendships. Each frie...

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Autores principales: Kaniušonytė, Goda, Žukauskienė, Rita, Bakaitytė, Aistė, Laursen, Brett
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9800894/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36591074
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1015506
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author Kaniušonytė, Goda
Žukauskienė, Rita
Bakaitytė, Aistė
Laursen, Brett
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Žukauskienė, Rita
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description The present study examines relations between adjustment problems and perceptions of maternal disapproval of friends in a sample of Lithuanian public middle-school students. The participants (ages 10 to 14) were 284 children (148 boys, 136 girls) who were involved in 142 stable friendships. Each friend described their own conduct problems, emotional problems, and perceptions of maternal disapproval of friends twice during the same academic year (M = 14.4 weeks apart). Dyadic analyses replicated previous findings in that one friend’s conduct and emotional problems forecast changes in the same problems in the other friend. Greater initial problems also anticipated increases in children’s’ perceptions of disapproval of friends by their own—but not their friend’s—mother, highlighting maternal efforts to manage the relations of troubled children. These efforts met with mix success. On the one hand, maternal disapproval of friends did not result in subsequent declines in adjustment problems among their own children; to the contrary, the conduct problems of boys increased with greater maternal involvement. On the other hand, adjustment problems declined among children whose friends reported higher levels of maternal disapproval, suggesting that maternal friendship management may interfere with the spread of problems between children.
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spelling pubmed-98008942022-12-31 Perceived maternal disapproval of friends: How mothers shape and respond to child and friend adjustment problems Kaniušonytė, Goda Žukauskienė, Rita Bakaitytė, Aistė Laursen, Brett Front Psychol Psychology The present study examines relations between adjustment problems and perceptions of maternal disapproval of friends in a sample of Lithuanian public middle-school students. The participants (ages 10 to 14) were 284 children (148 boys, 136 girls) who were involved in 142 stable friendships. Each friend described their own conduct problems, emotional problems, and perceptions of maternal disapproval of friends twice during the same academic year (M = 14.4 weeks apart). Dyadic analyses replicated previous findings in that one friend’s conduct and emotional problems forecast changes in the same problems in the other friend. Greater initial problems also anticipated increases in children’s’ perceptions of disapproval of friends by their own—but not their friend’s—mother, highlighting maternal efforts to manage the relations of troubled children. These efforts met with mix success. On the one hand, maternal disapproval of friends did not result in subsequent declines in adjustment problems among their own children; to the contrary, the conduct problems of boys increased with greater maternal involvement. On the other hand, adjustment problems declined among children whose friends reported higher levels of maternal disapproval, suggesting that maternal friendship management may interfere with the spread of problems between children. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9800894/ /pubmed/36591074 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1015506 Text en Copyright © 2022 Kaniušonytė, Žukauskienė, Bakaitytė and Laursen. https://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(s) 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.
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Bakaitytė, Aistė
Laursen, Brett
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title_fullStr Perceived maternal disapproval of friends: How mothers shape and respond to child and friend adjustment problems
title_full_unstemmed Perceived maternal disapproval of friends: How mothers shape and respond to child and friend adjustment problems
title_short Perceived maternal disapproval of friends: How mothers shape and respond to child and friend adjustment problems
title_sort perceived maternal disapproval of friends: how mothers shape and respond to child and friend adjustment problems
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9800894/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36591074
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1015506
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