TY - JOUR
T1 - Mother-Grandmother Conflict, Negative Parenting, and Young Children's Social Development in Multigenerational Families
AU - Barnett, Melissa A.
AU - Mills-Koonce, W. Roger
AU - Gustafsson, Hanna
AU - Cox, Martha
AU - Vernon-Feagans, Lynne
AU - Blair, Clancy
AU - Burchinal, Peg
AU - Burton, Linda
AU - Crnic, Keith
AU - Crouter, Ann
AU - Garrett-Peters, Patricia
AU - Greenberg, Mark
AU - Lanza, Stephanie
AU - Roger Mills-Koonce, W.
AU - Skinner, Debra
AU - Stifter, Cynthia
AU - Werner, Emily
AU - Willoughby, Michael
PY - 2012/12
Y1 - 2012/12
N2 - Mutigenerational households that include grandmothers and adult mothers caring for grandchildren are increasingly common. The influence, however, of mother-grandmother relationship quality and grandmothers' parenting on grandchildren's social development remains largely unexplored in these three-generation households. This study examines linkages among caregiver depressive symptoms, mother-grandmother verbal conflict, observed parenting, and 36-month-old grandchildren's problem and prosocial behaviors among a subsample from the Family Life Project (N = 85) consisting of economically disadvantaged multigenerational families. The findings suggest that mother-grandmother relationship conflict presents a risk to children's behavior directly and indirectly via mothers' negative parenting behaviors. Mothers seem to be more influenced by the mother-grandmother relationship than grandmothers. These results highlight the importance of including mother-grandmother conflict in mutigenerational families in family assessments and interventions.
AB - Mutigenerational households that include grandmothers and adult mothers caring for grandchildren are increasingly common. The influence, however, of mother-grandmother relationship quality and grandmothers' parenting on grandchildren's social development remains largely unexplored in these three-generation households. This study examines linkages among caregiver depressive symptoms, mother-grandmother verbal conflict, observed parenting, and 36-month-old grandchildren's problem and prosocial behaviors among a subsample from the Family Life Project (N = 85) consisting of economically disadvantaged multigenerational families. The findings suggest that mother-grandmother relationship conflict presents a risk to children's behavior directly and indirectly via mothers' negative parenting behaviors. Mothers seem to be more influenced by the mother-grandmother relationship than grandmothers. These results highlight the importance of including mother-grandmother conflict in mutigenerational families in family assessments and interventions.
KW - Early childhood
KW - Grandparents
KW - Multigenerational families
KW - Parent-child relationships
KW - Relationship conflict
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84869036230
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84869036230#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2012.00731.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2012.00731.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84869036230
SN - 0197-6664
VL - 61
SP - 864
EP - 877
JO - Family Relations
JF - Family Relations
IS - 5
ER -