Do ideal fathers differ from ideal mothers? A study on sensitivity, challenging, and sensitive challenging parenting behavior

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Autor(a) principal: Iwanski, Alexandra
Data de Publicação: 2022
Outros Autores: Mühling, Laura, Zimmermann, Peter
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17575/psicologia.1818
Resumo: Studies on caregiving often distinguish between sensitive and challenging behavior. Mothers are characterized as more sensitive and fathers as more challenging. From an attachment perspective, the ideal mother is sensitive. Empirically, sensitivity is a better predictor of child-mother compared to child-father attachment security. In contrast, sensitive challenging behavior is a better predictor of child-father attachment. Thus, the ideal father might be sensitive challenging. The study examined differences and/or similarities in representations of ideal mothers and fathers regarding sensitive challenging behavior. We explored raters’ parental status, gender, or attachment as influential factors. 175 participants described their representations of the ideal parents and rated the attachment security to their own parents. Results replicate earlier findings showing that the ideal mother is sensitive. Interestingly, also the ideal father is a sensitive father. In direct comparison, ideal fathers are less sensitive and more challenging compared to ideal mothers. Attachment avoidance influenced parenting ideals.
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Do ideal fathers differ from ideal mothers? A study on sensitivity, challenging, and sensitive challenging parenting behavior
title Do ideal fathers differ from ideal mothers? A study on sensitivity, challenging, and sensitive challenging parenting behavior
spellingShingle Do ideal fathers differ from ideal mothers? A study on sensitivity, challenging, and sensitive challenging parenting behavior
Iwanski, Alexandra
Sensitivity
challenging behavior
sensitive challenging behavior
attachment
ideal mother
ideal father
Sensitivity
challenging behavior
sensitive challenging behavior
attachment
ideal mother
ideal father
title_short Do ideal fathers differ from ideal mothers? A study on sensitivity, challenging, and sensitive challenging parenting behavior
title_full Do ideal fathers differ from ideal mothers? A study on sensitivity, challenging, and sensitive challenging parenting behavior
title_fullStr Do ideal fathers differ from ideal mothers? A study on sensitivity, challenging, and sensitive challenging parenting behavior
title_full_unstemmed Do ideal fathers differ from ideal mothers? A study on sensitivity, challenging, and sensitive challenging parenting behavior
title_sort Do ideal fathers differ from ideal mothers? A study on sensitivity, challenging, and sensitive challenging parenting behavior
author Iwanski, Alexandra
author_facet Iwanski, Alexandra
Mühling, Laura
Zimmermann, Peter
author_role author
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Zimmermann, Peter
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Iwanski, Alexandra
Mühling, Laura
Zimmermann, Peter
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Sensitivity
challenging behavior
sensitive challenging behavior
attachment
ideal mother
ideal father
Sensitivity
challenging behavior
sensitive challenging behavior
attachment
ideal mother
ideal father
topic Sensitivity
challenging behavior
sensitive challenging behavior
attachment
ideal mother
ideal father
Sensitivity
challenging behavior
sensitive challenging behavior
attachment
ideal mother
ideal father
description Studies on caregiving often distinguish between sensitive and challenging behavior. Mothers are characterized as more sensitive and fathers as more challenging. From an attachment perspective, the ideal mother is sensitive. Empirically, sensitivity is a better predictor of child-mother compared to child-father attachment security. In contrast, sensitive challenging behavior is a better predictor of child-father attachment. Thus, the ideal father might be sensitive challenging. The study examined differences and/or similarities in representations of ideal mothers and fathers regarding sensitive challenging behavior. We explored raters’ parental status, gender, or attachment as influential factors. 175 participants described their representations of the ideal parents and rated the attachment security to their own parents. Results replicate earlier findings showing that the ideal mother is sensitive. Interestingly, also the ideal father is a sensitive father. In direct comparison, ideal fathers are less sensitive and more challenging compared to ideal mothers. Attachment avoidance influenced parenting ideals.
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