A preventive intervention promoting toddlers' self-regulation improves parental resilience in the future

IF 1.7 3区社会学 Q2 FAMILY STUDIES

Family Relations Pub Date : 2024-11-18 DOI:10.1111/fare.13118

Ye Rang Park, Robert L. Nix, Lori A. Francis, Sukhdeep Gill, Mark E. Feinberg, Michelle L. Hostetler, Cynthia A. Stifter

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Abstract

Objective

The current study tested whether participating in a family-focused preventive intervention designed to promote toddlers' self-regulation improves parental resilience among families living in poverty.

Background

Family-focused preventive interventions can help strengthen family functioning, but it is unclear how parents apply what they have learned to new child-rearing challenges.

Method

Two hundred and forty-two families with toddlers (37% White, 25% Black, 19% Latino, 17% multiracial, 2% Asian; median income = $1,555 per month) enrolled in Early Head Start were randomly assigned to the Recipe 4 Success preventive intervention or usual practice home visits. Parents reported on parental resilience, which included aspects of social problem-solving, personal control, engagement coping, and self-regulation, assessed 18 months after the end of the intervention.

Results

A structural equations model revealed that parents in the intervention group, compared to parents in the control group, reported greater parental resilience and used more competent strategies to address child-rearing challenges (β = .33, p = .03). Subgroup analyses indicated that the intervention effects were similar across families with different demographic characteristics.

Conclusion

This study demonstrates how a family-focused preventive intervention designed to improve parents' skills in one specific domain at one point in their toddlers' development can have positive ripple effects, enhancing parental resilience in the future.

Implications

These findings reinforce the potential widespread value of providing rigorous, evidence-based family-focused preventive interventions during early childhood.

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促进幼儿自我调节的预防性干预可以提高父母未来的适应能力

目的本研究旨在检验参与以家庭为中心的预防干预是否能提高贫困家庭中幼儿的自我调节能力。以家庭为重点的预防干预措施有助于加强家庭功能，但尚不清楚父母如何将他们所学到的知识应用于新的育儿挑战。方法242个有幼儿的家庭(白人37%，黑人25%，拉丁裔19%，多种族17%，亚裔2%；收入中位数=每月1555美元)的参与者被随机分配到“配方4成功”预防干预组或常规家访组。在干预结束18个月后，父母报告了他们的恢复力，包括社会问题解决、个人控制、参与应对和自我调节等方面。结果结构方程模型显示，与对照组相比，干预组的父母表现出更强的心理弹性，并采用了更有效的策略来应对育儿挑战（β = 0.33, p = 0.03）。亚组分析表明，不同人口统计学特征的家庭的干预效果相似。本研究表明，以家庭为中心的预防干预，旨在提高父母在幼儿发展的某一阶段在某一特定领域的技能，可以产生积极的连锁反应，增强父母未来的适应能力。这些发现强化了在儿童早期提供严格的、以证据为基础的以家庭为重点的预防干预措施的潜在广泛价值。

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Family Relations Multiple-

CiteScore

3.40

自引率

13.60%

发文量

164

期刊介绍： A premier, applied journal of family studies, Family Relations is mandatory reading for family scholars and all professionals who work with families, including: family practitioners, educators, marriage and family therapists, researchers, and social policy specialists. The journal"s content emphasizes family research with implications for intervention, education, and public policy, always publishing original, innovative and interdisciplinary works with specific recommendations for practice.