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Published on: September 19, 2019
Family-centered prevention to enhance proactive parenting and parental self-efficacy during early elementary school
Felice Resnik1, S Andrew Garbacz2, Elizabeth A Stormshak3
1Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a family-centered intervention delivered during early elementary school, the Family Check-Up (FCU), in supporting parents' use of proactive parenting skills and the role that parental self-efficacy (PSE) has in promoting proactive parenting. We predicted both direct and mediated effects of the FCU on changes in proactive parenting. Participants were the primary caregivers of 321 kindergarten children and were randomly assigned to either the FCU or to a school-as-usual control group (n = 164 assigned to intervention). Results indicated that the FCU initiated during kindergarten enhanced proactive parenting skills directly and was mediated by PSE. These results highlight the FCU as an efficacious intervention in early elementary school in promoting proactive parenting skills and PSE and underscore the role of PSE as a primary pathway toward improved proactive parenting. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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