Care Neglect, Supervisory Neglect, and Harsh Parenting in the Development of Children’s Aggression: A Replication and Extension
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2005
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Child Maltreatment
Abstract
The objective of this study was to understand the effects of neglectful parenting, poor supervision, and punitive parenting in the development of children’s aggression, 218 children ages 4 to 8 years who were
disadvantaged and their mothers were recruited from two
states to develop a sample that was diverse with respect to degree of urbanization and ethnicity. Multimethod and
multisource indices of the predictive constructs (Social Disadvantage, Denial of Care Neglect, Supervisory Neglect, and
Punitive Discipline) and the criterion construct (Aggression)
were used in a test of a theoretical model using structural
equation modeling. The results established the role of care neglect, supervisory neglect, and punitive parenting as mediators of the role of social disadvantage in the development of
children’s aggression, the importance of distinguishing between two subtypes of neglect, and the need to consider the role
of discipline in concert with neglect when attempting to
understand the parenting in the development of aggression
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neglect, parenting, aggression, research, child development
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Knutson, J. F., DeGarmo, D., Koeppl, G., & Reid, J. B. (2005). Care neglect, supervisory neglect, and harsh parenting in the development of children’s aggression: A replication and extension. Child maltreatment, 10(2), 92-107.