Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
Department of Child Development, KK Women's & Children's Hospital, Singapore City, Singapore.
J Appl Res Intellect Disabil. 2019 Jul;32(4):841-848. doi: 10.1111/jar.12575. Epub 2019 Feb 4.
Children with developmental disabilities tend to develop challenging behaviours. Parenting programmes that focus on behaviour management may help parents address these difficult behaviours by increasing parenting self-efficacy. However, the literature on parenting self-efficacy is still limited due to measurement variability in conceptualization and operationalization of the construct, and heavy reliance on cross-sectional data.
This study utilized hierarchical linear regression to examine the predictors of parenting self-efficacy in 284 mothers who attended a parenting programme in a hospital's Department of Child Development in Singapore.
Our model was able to explain 37% of variance in parenting self-efficacy. After controlling for general stress and specific parenting hassles, the programme was still found to be effective in improving mothers' parenting self-efficacy.
Results are discussed in terms of their implications for developing a model for parenting self-efficacy, and possible improvements to be made on the parenting programme.
患有发育障碍的儿童往往会出现行为挑战。注重行为管理的育儿方案可能有助于家长通过提高育儿自我效能感来解决这些困难行为。然而，由于概念化和操作构念的可变性以及对横断面数据的严重依赖，育儿自我效能感的文献仍然有限。
本研究利用分层线性回归，对 284 名参加新加坡一家儿童医院儿童发展部育儿项目的母亲的育儿自我效能感的预测因素进行了检验。
我们的模型能够解释育儿自我效能感 37%的变异性。在控制一般压力和特定育儿困难后，该方案仍能有效提高母亲的育儿自我效能感。
根据其对育儿自我效能感模型的发展意义以及对育儿方案的可能改进进行了讨论。
