A vicious or auspicious cycle: The reciprocal relation between harsh parental discipline and children’s self-regulation
Children’s ability to exercise self-regulation is a key predictor of academic, behavioural, and life outcomes, but the developmental dynamics of children’s self-regulation are not adequately understood. We investigated how children’s self-regulation skills and harsh parental discipline reciprocally...
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| description | Children’s ability to exercise self-regulation is a key predictor of academic, behavioural, and life outcomes, but the developmental dynamics of children’s self-regulation are not adequately understood. We investigated how children’s self-regulation skills and harsh parental discipline reciprocally predict each other across 12,474 children at ages three, five, and seven in the U.K. (Millennium Cohort Study). Cross-lagged structural equation models indicated that high initial levels of harsh parental discipline predicted lower subsequent self-regulation, which then reciprocally predicted higher levels of harsh parental discipline. Conversely, high initial levels of child self-regulation predicted lower subsequent harsh parental discipline. Implications for policy and interventions are discussed. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:3a55bd7c-2fee-4ee8-a32d-f4264377e8352022-03-26T14:01:01ZA vicious or auspicious cycle: The reciprocal relation between harsh parental discipline and children’s self-regulationJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:3a55bd7c-2fee-4ee8-a32d-f4264377e835Symplectic Elements at OxfordRoutledge2017Baron, AMalmberg, LChildren’s ability to exercise self-regulation is a key predictor of academic, behavioural, and life outcomes, but the developmental dynamics of children’s self-regulation are not adequately understood. We investigated how children’s self-regulation skills and harsh parental discipline reciprocally predict each other across 12,474 children at ages three, five, and seven in the U.K. (Millennium Cohort Study). Cross-lagged structural equation models indicated that high initial levels of harsh parental discipline predicted lower subsequent self-regulation, which then reciprocally predicted higher levels of harsh parental discipline. Conversely, high initial levels of child self-regulation predicted lower subsequent harsh parental discipline. Implications for policy and interventions are discussed. |
| spellingShingle | Baron, A Malmberg, L A vicious or auspicious cycle: The reciprocal relation between harsh parental discipline and children’s self-regulation |
| title | A vicious or auspicious cycle: The reciprocal relation between harsh parental discipline and children’s self-regulation |
| title_full | A vicious or auspicious cycle: The reciprocal relation between harsh parental discipline and children’s self-regulation |
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| title_full_unstemmed | A vicious or auspicious cycle: The reciprocal relation between harsh parental discipline and children’s self-regulation |
| title_short | A vicious or auspicious cycle: The reciprocal relation between harsh parental discipline and children’s self-regulation |
| title_sort | vicious or auspicious cycle the reciprocal relation between harsh parental discipline and children s self regulation |
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