Adverse Childhood Experiences and Parental Warmth: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Adversity and Parenting Behavior With a Community Sample of Mothers

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dc.contributor.advisorGiuliani, Nicole
dc.contributor.authorFisher, Stephanie
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-09T22:38:01Z
dc.date.available2024-01-09T22:38:01Z
dc.date.issued2024-01-09
dc.description.abstractParenting is an important and complex experience that drives a child’s healthy development and well-being as an adult. Parenting has strong implications for child outcomes, and the link between a history of adversity and unsupportive parenting practices as an adult has been well-established in research. The effects of childhood adversity on supportive parenting, however, are still unclear. Parental warmth is a key component of supportive practices, but little is known about how exposure to adverse childhood experiences can impact warmth-related parenting behaviors. In order to investigate this relationship further, 84 mothers and their 3 to 5 year-old children participated in parent-child interactions and self-report measures. Data from the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Questionnaire (ACE-Q; Felitti et al., 1998) and related variables of importance were analyzed using a mixed methods approach with quantitative statistical analyses and qualitative analysis of non-participant observations. This study aimed to closely understand the relationship between ACEs and parental warmth by operationalizing ACEs in three distinct ways, assessing related parenting behaviors, discovering differences among mothers with high ACE scores, and exploring data synergistically guided by qualitative analysis. Findings from this study indicate that more exposure to adverse childhood events is related to fewer warm behaviors as a parent, and that socio-emotional factors may play an influential role in this association.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/29129
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectACEsen_US
dc.subjectAdverse Childhood Experiencesen_US
dc.subjectMaternal Warmthen_US
dc.subjectMixed Methodsen_US
dc.subjectParental Warmthen_US
dc.subjectSupportive Parentingen_US
dc.titleAdverse Childhood Experiences and Parental Warmth: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Adversity and Parenting Behavior With a Community Sample of Mothers
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of Special Education and Clinical Sciences
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.leveldoctoral
thesis.degree.namePh.D.

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