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Issues of parenting stress: A study involving mothers of toddlers
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Issues of parenting stress: A study involving mothers of toddlers

S A Esdaile and Ken Greenwood
Journal of Family Studies, Vol.1(2), pp.153-165
1995
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5172/jfs.1.2.153
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fatigue mothers parenting stress and causal attributions social support toddlers
This study investigated the relationship between maternal stress and causal attributions. Assessment was made of the psychometric properties and the content and construct validity of instruments used. Interviews (n=16) and a survey (n=104) were conducted using Abidin's (1990) Parenting Stress Index (PSI); the Child Interaction Survey (CIS), a parenting attribution measure (Bugental, Blue, & Cruzcosa, 1989), and the Modified-Child Interaction Survey (M-CIS) developed in the present study. Interviews suggested that a number of stress-related issues were not covered in the PSI, such as the nature of social support, personal and physical space, parenting styles, and children's illnesses. When 16 new items were added to the PSI to incorporate these issues, 11 correlated with existing items. No differences were found between the Bugental and colleagues' 1984 and 1989 methods of scoring parenting attributions. However, the framing of attribution items for "own child" or "another child" resulted in different relationships with perceived parenting stress. It may be concluded that mother-child interactions and maternal stress are issues urgently in need of further study, given the implications for family life, health, and wellbeing. © 1995 eContent Management Pty Ltd.

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