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    Parenting and children's cardiovascular functioning

    Bell, B.G. and Belsky, Jay (2008) Parenting and children's cardiovascular functioning. Child: Care Health and Development 34 (2), pp. 194-203. ISSN 0305-1862.

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    Abstract

    Objectives: To test the hypothesis that more supportive/less negative parenting is associated with lower resting blood pressure and heart rates in children and to determine whether parent and/or child gender and developmental stage moderate the relations in question. Design Longitudinal data on 835 children/families who participated in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development were analysed. Children (one per family) were followed from age 1 month to 11 years. Methods Data were collected from children and their families via interviews, observations of parent–child interaction and physical health assessments. Results Correlations show that more supportive and less negative parenting prior to kindergarten entry (∼5 years) are associated with lower heart rates and blood pressure in children of primary school grades 4–6 (∼9 to 11 years), especially in the case of fathering, sons and parenting during the pre-school years. Conclusions Such findings raise the prospect that interventions to enhance parenting, especially the early fathering of sons, may have beneficial effects on children's cardiovascular functioning. The inability to discount genetic mediation of parenting effects makes it clear that behaviour-genetic and/or experimental research is needed to document cause and effect relations.

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    Item Type: Article
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): children, parenting, resting blood pressure,resting heart rate
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 07 Jan 2011 14:54
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 16:52
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/2306

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