What is it about?
This study found that neighborhood risk can affect how mothers and fathers respond to their 3 year-old children’s distress. Mothers' response strategies predicted lower levels of children's anxiety over time, whereas fathers' strategies predicted higher levels of behavioral problems.
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Why is it important?
These results highlight how specific parenting behaviors can reduce or amplify children’s anxiety and behavioral problems, which offers valuable insight to parents and parenting researchers who strive to promote positive child development in under resourced communities.
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This page is a summary of: Delineating specificity in parental responses to children’s distress: Associations with neighborhood risk and children’s socioemotional outcomes., Developmental Psychology, June 2026, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/dev0002210.
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