Trajectories of Overprotective Parenting and Hyperactivity-Impulsivity and Inattention Among Moderate-Late Preterm Child
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Trajectories of Overprotective Parenting and Hyperactivity-Impulsivity and Inattention Among Moderate-Late Preterm Children: A Population-Based Study Sabrina Faleschini 1
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Célia Matte-Gagné 1 & Thuy Mai Luu 2 & Sylvana Côté 3 & Richard E. Tremblay 2 & Michel Boivin 1
Accepted: 8 September 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Parents of preterm children are more likely to adopt non-optimal parenting behaviors than parents of full-term (FT) children. However, there is a lack of studies on parents of children born moderate to late preterm (MLP; 32–36 gestational weeks). In this study, we aimed to examine: (1) the association between MLP birth status and the trajectory of parental overprotection throughout preschool years, and (2) the role of parental overprotection, MLP birth status, and their interaction in the prediction of the trajectories of hyperactivity-impulsivity and inattention throughout childhood. Data comes from a Canadian representative population-based cohort including 2028 FT, 100 MLP children, and their parents. Overprotective parenting was measured when children were 5, 17, and 29 months old. Hyperactivity-impulsivity and inattention symptoms were measured repeatedly from 4 to 8 years of age. Trajectories of parents’ overprotectiveness and children’s hyperactivity-impulsivity and inattention were modeled. MLP birth status was associated with an increase in parental overprotectiveness across the preschool period. MLP birth status and parental overprotection were both found to be associated with higher levels of hyperactivity-impulsivity symptoms across childhood. No interaction was found between birth status and parental overprotection. The results suggest that parents of MLP children become more overprotective across time compared to parents of FT children and that children born MLP and/or exposed to higher levels of parental overprotection demonstrated higher levels of hyperactivity-impulsivity symptoms across childhood. Keywords Moderate to late preterm . Trajectories . Overprotection . Hyperactivity-impulsivity . Inattention
Introduction Around the world, approximately 10% of births occur before the pregnancy reaches full term (0.75 (Boivin et al., 2005). In the current sample, we observed alphas of 0.68 at 5 months, 0.71 at 17 months, and 0.74 at 29 months. Hyperactivity-Impulsivity and Inattention Primary caregiver’s ratings of children’s hyperactivity-impulsivity and inattention were obtained at 4, 5, 6, and 8 years using the Social Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ; Tremblay et al., 1991). The SBQ is an omnibus psychopathology inventory that can measure children’s behavioral symptoms in both clinically diagnosed and sub-clinical samples. The SBQ has been proven to be internally consistent (α > 0.70) in samples composed of clinical and normative groups of children and adolescents (Murray et al., 2016, 2017; Pingault et al., 2013; Vitaro et al., 1998). Scores during childhood have been correlated with mental health outcomes and substance use during ad
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