Relationship between Characteristic Behaviors of Children with AD/HD and Mothers' Parenting Styles

• Mano Shoko

  Department of Nursing, Ehime Prefectural University of Health Sciences

• Uno Hiroyuki

  Department of Special Support Education, Hyogo University of Teacher Education

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 注意欠陥／多動性障害児の行動特徴と母親の養育態度間の関連性

Abstract

Previous studies have revealed that mothers of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) have an authoritarian parenting style. However, the psychological process of developing an authoritarian parenting style has yet to be clearly defined. To clarify this psychological process, the present study examined the hypothesis that the characteristic behaviors of children with AD/HD initially increase the mothers' parenting stress, which influences their parenting style. Thirty-six mothers of children with AD/HD (children's mean age: 8.1 years) and the same number of controls (children's mean age: 8.4 years) participated in the present study. The mothers' parenting stress was assessed using the Japanese Parenting Stress Index. Parenting styles were assessed using the TK-style scale for evaluating the relationships between parents and children. The results indicated that the mothers of children with AD/HD had significantly higher scores than controls for all parenting stress items and negative parenting style variables (dissatisfaction, reproach, strictness, interference, inconsistency and disagreement of 10 attitudes). Stepwise multiple regression analysis revealed that the characteristic behaviors of children with AD/HD were associated with the degree of attachment in mothers, which was related to the strict and reproachful parenting style in the AD/HD group. These results suggest that mothers of children with AD/HD are likely to have a strict and reproachful parenting style as a result of a lack of attachment with the child.

Journal

• NO TO HATATSU

  NO TO HATATSU 39 (1), 19-24, 2007

  THE JAPANESE SOCIETY OF CHILD NEUROLOGY

Keywords

• 注意欠陥/多動性障害
• 育児ストレス
• 養育態度
• 愛着

Details

• CRID: 1390001204554230144
• NII Article ID: 10018714369
• NII Article ID: 130004183824
• NII Book ID: AN0020232X
• DOI: 10.11251/ojjscn1969.39.19
• ISSN: 18847668
• ISSN: 00290831
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/2007118452
• Text Lang: ja
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