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Changing Family Dynamics Through Childhood: Exploring Household Chaos as a Moderator of Bidirectional Effects Between Parent and Child Behaviors

Bonamy R. Oliver; Jon Heron; Jasmine A.L. Raw; Jane Gilmour; Emily Midouhas

Originally published 2025-08-12 · JAACAP Open
Elsevier · DOI 10.1016/j.jaacop.2025.08.001 ↗

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Which features of our daily routine make calm limits harder to maintain?

The analysis asks how household disorder fits into repeated exchanges between caregiver discipline and child behavior.

Who was studied?

Children and their main caregivers in the UK Millennium Cohort Study.

Age / stage: Ages 3, 5 and 7

Read with three questions

  1. How was household chaos distinguished from the behaviors reported within it?
  2. What changed within families over time, and which differences were already present?
  3. Which features of our daily routine make calm limits harder to maintain?

Keep the limits in view

Following participants over time helps examine sequence, but does not eliminate selection, reporting differences or unmeasured family circumstances.

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Bonamy R. Oliver; Jon Heron; Jasmine A.L. Raw; Jane Gilmour; Emily Midouhas (2025). Changing Family Dynamics Through Childhood: Exploring Household Chaos as a Moderator of Bidirectional Effects Between Parent and Child Behaviors JAACAP Open. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaacop.2025.08.001

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