APS

30th APS Annual Convention · 2018

Reciprocal Parent-Child Influences: The Mediating Effect of Negative Parenting Practices on Parental Stress and Child ADHD Severity

San Francisco, CA · May 2018

Poster · Developmental

  • Belinda Hernandez
    University of California, Los Angeles
  • Elizabeth Moroney
    University of California, Los Angeles
  • Steve Lee
    University of California, Los Angeles

Abstract

Using longitudinal data, this study examined the effects of parenting stress and negative parenting (inconsistent discipline, poor monitoring, and corporal punishment) on child ADHD symptoms in early adolescence. A multiple mediation model found that corporal punishment significantly mediated the relationship between parental stress and ADHD symptom severity.

Psychopathology

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