Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 2 · Licensed source edition
Unraveling the link between family of origin and parental responsiveness toward own child
Originally published 2023-10-09 · Frontiers in Psychiatry
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1255490 ↗
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How can the family a parent grew up in be studied alongside the way they now respond to a child?
The article asks about intergenerational patterns of responsiveness, while distinguishing current caregiving from recalled family experience.
Who was studied?
Parents reporting on their family of origin and responsiveness toward their own child
Age / stage: Parents of dependent children
Read with three questions
- How can the family a parent grew up in be studied alongside the way they now respond to a child?
- Whose observations or reports were used, and what competing explanations are compatible with them?
- Which features of the study population (parents reporting on their family of origin and responsiveness toward their own child) would matter when applying the findings in another setting?
Keep the limits in view
Parents' accounts of their family of origin may be influenced by current relationships. A link with present-day responsiveness does not establish an unchanged pattern across generations.
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Paulina Anikiej-Wiczenbach; Maria Kaźmierczak (2023). Unraveling the link between family of origin and parental responsiveness toward own child Frontiers in Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1255490
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