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Exploring parenting behaviors, stress, and closeness among foster parents

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  • Asbury, Jenna
  • Mallette, Jacquelyn K.
  • Sira, Natalia

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This mixed methods study with a triangulation design aimed to explore the impact of parenting styles and those that most make up parenting care among foster parents today. We assessed how foster parents individually view their management of childcare, perceived levels of support, and education opportunities surrounding foster care parenting practices or level of received preparedness. Furthermore, this study offered insight into if parental styles are associated with parental perceived stress level, and foster parent-foster child closeness. Preexisting secondary data from the Fostering Healthy Relationships study was utilized. This study contained national survey data and focus group transcriptions from licensed foster parents, which were collected during 2018–2019. Our current sample included quantitative data from 457 foster parent participants and qualitative data from 12 participants. Overall, the results indicated most parents who responded to the survey revealed having participated in authoritative parenting practices. Those with authoritative and authoritarian parenting practices had more stress, while authoritative reported more closeness with foster children.

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  • Asbury, Jenna & Mallette, Jacquelyn K. & Sira, Natalia, 2024. "Exploring parenting behaviors, stress, and closeness among foster parents," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 166(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:166:y:2024:i:c:s0190740924005462
    DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107974
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    1. Skrallan, De Maeyer & Johan, Vanderfaeillie & Marijke, Robberechts & Femke, Vanschoonlandt & Frank, Van Holen, 2015. "Foster parents' coping style and attitudes toward parenting," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 53(C), pages 70-76.
    2. Nina Thorup Dalgaard & Maiken Pontoppidan & Morten Kjær Thomsen & Bjørn Christian Arleth Viinholt & Trine Filges, 2020. "PROTOCOL: Parenting interventions to support parent/child attachment and psychosocial adjustment in foster and adoptive parents and children: A systematic review," Campbell Systematic Reviews, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 16(1), March.
    3. Mallette, Jacquelyn K. & Almond, Lindsey & Leonard, Hannah, 2020. "Fostering healthy families: An exploration of the informal and formal support needs of foster caregivers," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 110(C).
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