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Household chaos - links with parenting and child behaviour

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posted on 2023-06-07, 17:50 authored by Jo Coldwell, Alison PikeAlison Pike, Judy Dunn
Background: The study aimed to confirm previous findings showing links between household chaos and parenting in addition to examining whether household chaos was predictive of children's behaviour over and above parenting. In addition, we investigated whether household chaos acts as a moderator between parenting and children's behaviour. Method: The sample consisted of 118 working- and middle-class two-parent English families with two children aged 4–8. Parents provided reports of the parent–child relationship, the level of chaos in their home and the children's problematic behaviour. The children also provided reports of parent–child relationships via a puppet interview. Results: The results confirmed the links between household chaos and parenting, and indicated that household chaos is predictive of children's problem behaviour over and above parenting. In addition, in a minority of cases, household chaos played a moderating role between parenting and children's behaviour in that it exacerbated the effect of poorer quality parenting on children's behaviour. Conclusions: Household chaos is able to work in an additive way and predict children's problem behaviour over and above parenting, and is particularly potent when in combination with less positive/more negative parenting.

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Publication status

  • Published

Journal

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

ISSN

0021-9630

Publisher

Wiley

Issue

11

Volume

47

Page range

1116-1122

Pages

7.0

Department affiliated with

  • Psychology Publications

Notes

Senior author. Coldwell was Pike's research fellow.

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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