parents' perception of 'problems' in their 11-15yr olds in Kenya, Thailand and the USA. US parents - children disobedient & argumentative, Kenyan parents - children fearful and anxious
Prevalence
Dunedin Multidisciplinary
Health and Development
Study
Annotations:
NZ 1972 cohort 3ys+, low attrition 4% after 23 yrs
17.6% @ 11yrs
National Child
Development Study
Annotations:
GB 1958 on
22% @ 7yrs,
14% serious
British Child Mental
Health Survey
Annotations:
1999 GB
10% of 5-15
yr olds
Can't compare
results of studies
Stability - did adolescents
with difficulties have
difficulties from an early
age
White et al - stability in anti-social behaviour
Bates et al - stability in aggressive behaviour
expression of problems change over time
Boys tend NOT to grow out of aggression
Overlap in disorders - particularly depression
Risk factors
ASSOCIATIONS
not causes
Social background
father's behaviour
mother's mental state
parental attitudes
marital relationship
Models
Medical model
within the child
Social environment model
environmental
Bowlby's maternal deprivation
Parental roles
Murray & Stein
Maternal sensitivity
see Attachment
Infants disturbed by
'unnatural pertubations'
- blank face, out of
sync reactions etc.
Criticised by Meins et
al. - too vague, no
account for
mind-mindedness
Murray's natural experiment
with mothers with post-natal
depression supports BUT
there are other factors
involved in depression
Bor et al
Mother's attitudes
mothers with -ve attitudes
to their babies at 6 months
were more likely to
percieve problems at 5yrs
Dadds et al. High abuse-risk mothers -
saw +ve behaviours as external, -ve
behaviours as internal
Patterson
cycle of parent-child conflict
Role of fathers
Jafee et al
Absence of antisocial
father had a positive
effect
Flouri & Buchanan
father involvement @ 7yrs in
disrupted families protected
against maladjustment
Children's roles - NOT PASSIVE
Bell - parenting style is a
response to children's
temperament rather than
temperament being the
result of parenting style
Johnston et al - medication influenced
both the child'd behaviours and parental
attributions of them