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Longitudinal relation between state-trait maternal irritability and harsh parenting.

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Thartori, E; Zuffianò, A; Pastorelli, C; Gerbino, M; Lunetti, C; Favini, A; Basili, E; Di Giunta, L; Bacchini, D; Lansford, JE
Published in: PloS one
January 2019

According to Belsky's process model of parenting, parents' personality represents the most important factor influencing parenting and child development. While an extensive literature has empirically corroborated the role of irritability traits in predicting aggressive behaviors in laboratory-based studies, only a few studies have examined the role of irritability in predicting aggressive behaviors within family contexts. The present study addressed this gap by examining the longitudinal association between maternal irritability and harsh parenting. Referencing latent state-trait theory (LST), first we estimated the amount of variance in mothers' irritability due to trait and state components, and, next, we examined the relation between mothers' irritability (both at trait- and state- levels) and harsh parenting over time. A sample of 204 mothers from Naples and Rome provided data over 5 years in four waves. Mothers averaged 40.30 years (SD = 5.33) at Time 1 and 44.01 years (SD = 5.43) at Time 4. Their children (50% girls) were 9.45 years (SD = 0.74) at Time 1 and 13.18 years (SD = 0.66) at Time 4. Results of LST analysis showed that, on average, 39% of variability in irritability was due to trait-like factors and only 12% to state-like factors. A multitrait-multistate model revealed that the irritability trait associated with mother's lack of control predicted her harsh parenting 1-year later, while controlling for the rank-order stability of harsh parenting.

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PloS one

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1932-6203

ISSN

1932-6203

Publication Date

January 2019

Volume

14

Issue

1

Start / End Page

e0209493

Related Subject Headings

  • Personality
  • Parenting
  • Parent-Child Relations
  • Mothers
  • Models, Psychological
  • Middle Aged
  • Maternal Behavior
  • Male
  • Longitudinal Studies
  • Italy
 

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Thartori, E., Zuffianò, A., Pastorelli, C., Gerbino, M., Lunetti, C., Favini, A., … Lansford, J. E. (2019). Longitudinal relation between state-trait maternal irritability and harsh parenting. PloS One, 14(1), e0209493. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209493
Thartori, Eriona, Antonio Zuffianò, Concetta Pastorelli, Maria Gerbino, Carolina Lunetti, Ainzara Favini, Emanuele Basili, Laura Di Giunta, Dario Bacchini, and Jennifer E. Lansford. “Longitudinal relation between state-trait maternal irritability and harsh parenting.PloS One 14, no. 1 (January 2019): e0209493. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209493.
Thartori E, Zuffianò A, Pastorelli C, Gerbino M, Lunetti C, Favini A, et al. Longitudinal relation between state-trait maternal irritability and harsh parenting. PloS one. 2019 Jan;14(1):e0209493.
Thartori, Eriona, et al. “Longitudinal relation between state-trait maternal irritability and harsh parenting.PloS One, vol. 14, no. 1, Jan. 2019, p. e0209493. Epmc, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0209493.
Thartori E, Zuffianò A, Pastorelli C, Gerbino M, Lunetti C, Favini A, Basili E, Di Giunta L, Bacchini D, Lansford JE. Longitudinal relation between state-trait maternal irritability and harsh parenting. PloS one. 2019 Jan;14(1):e0209493.

Published In

PloS one

DOI

EISSN

1932-6203

ISSN

1932-6203

Publication Date

January 2019

Volume

14

Issue

1

Start / End Page

e0209493

Related Subject Headings

  • Personality
  • Parenting
  • Parent-Child Relations
  • Mothers
  • Models, Psychological
  • Middle Aged
  • Maternal Behavior
  • Male
  • Longitudinal Studies
  • Italy