Parenting : risk and protective factors for mothers with a history of exposure to family violence.

This study aimed to assess the influence of intimate partner violence and early childhood abuse on women’s current parenting, and to identify other factors which aid or interrupt positive parenting and how these factors might affect their children’s’ behaviour. Method: Women from the greater Cape Town region in South Africa who had a child between the ages of 3 and 8 years, and who were concerned about the behaviour of that child, were recruited from agencies in low-income contexts serving battered women or providing child care. Interviews were conducted with 203 women, and measures included the Conflict Tactics Scale, the Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scale, the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST), the Parent Stress Index, the General Health Questionnaire, International Child Abuse Screening Tool, the Parenting Sense of Competence, the Duke Support Scales and the Eyberg Child Behaviour Index.

Publisher: University of Cape Town
Edition: 2012
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