Title: Postpartum maternal separation anxiety, overprotective parenting, and children’s social-emotional well-being: Longitudinal evidence from an Australian cohort.
Given the surge in working mothers of young children, regular separation from an infant is a crucial element of parenthood. Emerging literature has identified some correlations of maternal separation anxiety, which describes mothers’ thoughts, feelings, and experiences during such separations. The impact of maternal separation anxiety on parenting and child development is well theorized yet untested. This research uses complicated modeling to examine the relationship between postpartum maternal separation anxiety, overprotective parenting, and children’s social at 2–3 years. They interpret these results cautiously despite robust models. The mother-child relationship is transactional because attentive parenting responds to children’s conduct. Infancy and beyond, mothers may worry and protect children with frequent or intense challenging behaviors. Shy, withdrawn, or frightened toddlers and those who act out in social circumstances may require extra parental protection. Mothers may be overprotective or concerned because their children need more support or attentiveness. These findings cannot determine how much parental separation anxiety and overprotective parenting cause children’s behavior issues. Child temperament studies will clarify this relationship. The study is the first to confirm the theorized relationship between postpartum maternal separation anxiety, overprotective parenting, and children’s social and emotional development, suggesting that more research is needed to understand risk, protective, and causal pathways. These findings raise several questions. More sophisticated, exact assessments are needed to determine if more concern, worry, and anxiety about children is healthy and even protective of optimal parental practices and child outcomes. Child temperament as a forerunner to overprotective parenting needs further study. Finally, it is essential to determine when mother’s separation anxiety and overprotective parenting actions are harmful and when they are protective, protective, or sensitive to establishing safe and secure surroundings for their child. Reference: Cooklin, A. R., Giallo, R., D’Esposito, F., Crawford, S., & Nicholson, J. M. (2013). Postpartum maternal separation anxiety, overprotective parenting, and children’s social-emotional well-being: Longitudinal evidence from an Australian cohort. Journal of Family Psychology, 27(4), 618–628. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0033332Links to an external site.
Title: The protective role of parental vigilance in the link between risky childhood environments and health
The current study offers vital new information to the increasing body of scholarly research on the topic of the characteristics of one’s parents and how those characteristics play a role in balancing the adverse effects of exposure to hazardous conditions throughout childhood. This body of research is focused on the topic of the qualities of an individual’s parents and how those characteristics play a part in the development of an individual. Extending the scope of this line of research has the potential to uncover qualities of parental alertness that have the potential to be useful in reducing the prevalence of physical health constraints in young adulthood among people who were raised in high-risk circumstances. This could be a benefit to persons who were raised in high-risk environments. As a consequence of this, they highly recommend programs that aim to create resiliency among young people who are living in high-risk circumstances to take into consideration the effect that watchful parenting may have in lowering the possibility of having poor health later in life.
References:
Corallo, K. L., Carr, C. P., Lavner, J. A., Koss, K. J., & Ehrlich, K. B. (2023). The protective role of parental vigilance in the link between risky childhood environments and health. Social Science & Medicine (1982), 317, 115593–. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115593
These are two articles I have used in previous discussion working up to this assignment. Please feel free to use them when doing this paper