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Assessing the Coherence of Parents' Short Narratives Regarding their Child Using the Five-Minute Speech Sample Procedure
Published on: September 19, 2019
[Educational competence of parents with children participating in youth welfare measures]
Stefan Rücker1, Peter Büttner, Ulrike Petermann
1Zentrum für Klinische Psychologie und Rehabilitation, Universität Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Deutschland. sruecker@uni-bremen.de
Objective:
The study examines the influence of specific risks on parenting at the beginning of youth welfare measures.
Method:
Family risk factors as well as parental behaviour styles of N = 74 parents were assessed with standardized questionnaires.
Results:
The results were evaluated cross-sectionally with one-way factor analysis. Three groups were formed according to degree of risk factors. Families with special risks, i.e., material needs, physically ill parents, or single parents, show a significantly lower level of parenting competence. Differences in negative parenting features are not found to be under the influence of specific risks.
Conclusions:
Parents of children in youth welfare measures who are specifically stressed may need special training to increase their parenting skills, especially when pre-post comparisons show lower parenting quality in the group with specific risk factors at the end of an intervention.
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