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Maternal Responsive Parenting Trajectories From Birth to Age 3 and Children's Self-Esteem at First Grade
1Department of Child and Family Studies, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea.
Abstract:
This paper examines the quality and stability of the responsive parenting practices of mothers with infants and the longitudinal links between these practices and children's self-esteem. Using data presented by the Panel Study on Korean Children, this study identified Korean mothers' responsive parenting trajectories from birth to age three and examined their associations with children's self-esteem at first grade. Korean mothers developed one of three responsive parenting patterns from birth to age three: low (19.0%), moderate (66.0%), or high (15.0%). Children's self-esteem differed according to their mother's responsive parenting trajectory. First-graders with mothers displaying the low responsive parenting trajectory were more likely to have lower self-esteem than children of mothers with the moderate responsive parenting trajectory and children of mothers with the high responsive parenting trajectory. The longitudinal link between mother-reported responsive parenting patterns during infancy and child-reported self-esteem at first grade was verified. This finding highlights the significance of early responsive parenting from mothers as a predictor of the self-esteem of children in later developmental stages.
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