Parenting beliefs about attunement and structure are related to observed parenting behaviours

Gattis, Merideth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8665-7577, Winstanley, Alice and Bristow, Florence 2022. Parenting beliefs about attunement and structure are related to observed parenting behaviours. Cogent Psychology 9 (1) , 2082675. 10.1080/23311908.2022.2082675

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Abstract

We compared self-reported parenting beliefs about caring for infants with observed parenting behaviours during play interactions between 32 parents and their infants. We measured parenting beliefs about the value of attunement and structure in caring for infants using the Baby Care Questionnaire (BCQ) (Winstanley & Gattis, 2013; Winstanley, Sperotto, Putnick, Cherian, Bornstein & Gattis, 2014). We used a micro-coding approach to distinguish between responsive parenting behaviours (maintaining infant attention) and demanding parenting behaviours (introducing or redirecting infant attention) (Landry, Garner, Swank & Baldwin, 1996). Attunement beliefs were positively related to responsive parenting behaviours and negatively related to demanding parenting behaviours. Structure beliefs were weakly related to demanding parenting behaviours. These results are an important first step toward identifying relations between self-reported parenting beliefs about attunement and structure and observed parenting behaviours.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Additional Information:	This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
ISSN:	2331-1908
Funders:	Wellcome Trust
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	26 May 2022
Date of Acceptance:	20 May 2022
Last Modified:	04 Sep 2023 16:44
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/150049

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