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Unraveling the bidirectional associations between parental knowledge and children’s externalizing behavior
Visscher,Anke H. Boele,Savannah Denissen,Jaap J. A.
Visscher,Anke H.
Boele,Savannah
Denissen,Jaap J. A.
Abstract
Although within- and between-family bidirectional associations between parental knowledge and children’s externalizing behavior have been theoretically proposed, studies that unravel these associations simultaneously remain scarce. This study examined these bidirectional associations within and between German families. 3611 families participated across one-year intervals between children ages 8 to 15 (50.6% boys, 34.5% fathers, 89.0% German-born, Mwaves = 3.63, SDwaves = 2.00). Random intercept cross-lagged panel models (RI-CLPM) with linear slopes revealed negative between-family associations between parental knowledge and children’s externalizing behavior, and a negative association between the random linear slopes. Generally, no within-family cross-lagged effects were found, but there were some correlated slopes across families. When teasing apart paternal and maternal knowledge, father-driven but not mother-driven lagged effects of increased knowledge predicting decreased externalizing behavior were found. The findings illustrate the importance of fathers’ knowledge and new directions for within-family studies of parent-child interactions.
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Funding Information: Pairfam is funded as long-term project by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
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2023
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Externalizing behavior, Longitudinal study, Parental knowledge, Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model, Within-person, Parenting, Humans, Parents, Male, Mothers, Adolescent, Female, Fathers, Parent-Child Relations, Child, Longitudinal Studies
Citation
Visscher, A H, Boele, S & Denissen, J J A 2023, 'Unraveling the bidirectional associations between parental knowledge and children’s externalizing behavior', Journal of Youth and Adolescence, vol. 52, pp. 794-809. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-023-01743-4