Maternal Parenting Style/Adolescents

[Ellen]

Funny how I've yet to come across an abstract that states controlling doctors who fail to empower their patients, wreak havoc througout the family ;-). Or the dangers of an anal retentive dietician in the treatment of type 1....Maybe we should create a satire of abstracts that should be in print. (I added the red for "perceptions" below)

J Pediatr Psychol. (javascript:AL_get(this, 'jour', 'J Pediatr Psychol.');) 2007 Aug 23; [Epub ahead of print]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/corehtml/query/egifs/http:--highwire.stanford.edu-icons-externalservices-pubmed-custom-oxfordjournals_aop.gif (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/utils/fref.fcgi?PrId=3051&itool=AbstractPlus-def&uid=17717004&db=pubmed&url=http://jpepsy.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=17717004)
Maternal Parenting Style and Adjustment in Adolescents with Type I Diabetes.

Butler JM (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=Search&Term=%22Butler%20JM%22%5BAuthor%5D&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsP anel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus), Skinner M (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=Search&Term=%22Skinner%20M%22%5BAuthor%5D&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsP anel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus), Gelfand D (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=Search&Term=%22Gelfand%20D%22%5BAuthor%5D&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsP anel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus), Berg CA (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=Search&Term=%22Berg%20CA%22%5BAuthor%5D&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsP anel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus), Wiebe DJ (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=Search&Term=%22Wiebe%20DJ%22%5BAuthor%5D&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsP anel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus).
Department of Psychology, University of Utah.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the cross-sectional relationship between maternal parenting style and indicators of well-being among adolescents with diabetes. METHODS: Seventy-eight adolescents (ages 11.58-17.42 years, M = 14.21) with type 1 diabetes and their mothers separately reported perceptions of maternal parenting style. Adolescents reported their own depressed mood, self-efficacy for managing diabetes, and diabetes regimen adherence. RESULTS: Adolescents' perceptions of maternal psychological control were associated with greater depressed mood regardless of age and gender. Firm control was strongly associated with greater depressed mood and poorer self-efficacy among older adolescents, less strongly among younger adolescents. Adolescents' perceptions of maternal acceptance were associated with less depressed mood, particularly for girls and with better self-efficacy for diabetes management, particularly for older adolescents and girls. Maternal reports of acceptance were associated only with adherence. CONCLUSIONS: Maternal parenting style is associated with well-being in adolescents with diabetes, but this association is complex and moderated by age and gender.

[Adinsmom]

:confused: What do they mean by firm control?

*edited* Okay I just reread it after a cup of coffee. Are they suggesting anal retentive mom's or just mom's that don't give their kids any say in their diabetes? I think about this often because Adin is so little and I feel it is up to me to model how he should take care of his diabetes. I am petty much no nonsense with diabetes. High number=correction, low number=treatment, don't guess bg take a moment and check, I ask him if he feels low-thumb down or high-thumbs up (thanks to a tip on this board), and try to always put the emphasis on the number and what we should do not Adin. Is that firm control?

[selketine]

Well Adin is 2 yrs old - the kids in this study were all 11 yrs old and up - and the avg age around 14.

I was thinking - it is sort of chicken and egg - you get a teenager who isn't being responsible would make the parents more controlling right? A responsible teenager has less controlling parents. I would think sometimes the parents want to slack up but cannot (or find it hard to do) because their kids aren't responsible. Were their kids depressed and etc. before the parents were controlling or only after or ?

Wow - and they concluded this was a complex relationship! no duh!

[thebestnest5]

Well Adin is 2 yrs old - the kids in this study were all 11 yrs old and up - and the avg age around 14.

I was thinking - it is sort of chicken and egg - you get a teenager who isn't being responsible would make the parents more controlling right? A responsible teenager has less controlling parents. I would think sometimes the parents want to slack up but cannot (or find it hard to do) because their kids aren't responsible. Were their kids depressed and etc. before the parents were controlling or only after or ?

Wow - and they concluded this was a complex relationship! no duh!



And, the study was small as well...:cwds:

[OSUMom]

Am I the only one that finds these abstract difficult to comprehend? :confused: So what was it saying - if you have girls and they are adhering to the diabetes management plan, give them some independence to care for themselves a little and they'll be happier? Kinda, sorta, maybe? :)

You know back with the nutritionist thread - my son was thinking of being a dietician and I was steering him away from it big time months ago, but now I'm thinking there really needs to be a new wave of dieticians - maybe even Type 1 diabetics themselves, Ellen! He's taking his first dietician class this fall quarter at OSU since he finally got Biology 101 out of the way - we'll see if he loves it. ;)

Oh my he sure would break the dietician mold.

[Hollyb]

I think we all already know what a difficult juggling act this is as children get older. At one end is "overcontrolling," and I have no doubt this can lead to trouble. An example? I know a 17-year-old diabetic boy and when he calls to say he is at a friend's after school or staying overnight, he has to read his mother all the numbers from his meter that day. This is not a kid with a history of skipping tests or anything. So -- what, if he's had a "high day", does that mean he's not allowed to go to a friend's? To me that seems inappropriate for a kid his age.

On the other hand, I think it's a big mistake to abdicate completely and leave all the diabetes care and decisions to a teen. I think they need that safety net of knowing someone is looking out for them and supporting them.

But one person's "support" can be another person's "breathing down my neck." It's tricky!

And Ellen, I'm with you, there seems to be a shocking inconsistency in the quality of support families get from medical professionals. They should study themselves!

[Momof4gr8kids]

Funny how I've yet to come across an abstract that states controlling doctors who fail to empower their patients, wreak havoc througout the family ;-). Or the dangers of an anal retentive dietician in the treatment of type 1....Maybe we should create a satire of abstracts that should be in print. (I added the red for "perceptions" below)

Now that would be great!!!

CONCLUSIONS: Maternal parenting style is associated with well-being in adolescents with diabetes, but this association is complex and moderated by age and gender.

Don't they think that maternal parenting style effects children without diabetes? Did this study really need to be ran to figure that out? What was the point of this study? And who paid for it, or gave a grant for this? Holly cow!

[Tamara Gamble]

Just another study about how we are screwing up our kids by some moron who is cooking up crank and smoking it in the back as he writes.

I'm with you Ellen, I have never seen a report about the idiot control freak doctors either.

Tami

[hartpukas]

I have heard from two different nationally acclaimed Diabetes speakers that the attitude of the mother and how she feels in relation to her role within the family unit (emotionally supported by her spouse, etc...) as a direct correlation to the child's control of type 1. For example, those with better A1C numbers had a positively impacted maternal figure with better attitudes of herself as a caregiver. However this is not to suggest that a higher A1C means the opposite, necessarily. I just wonder if somehow this is trying to suggest the same idea but in a really distorted clinical refernce way :confused:

[lynn]

I have a 12 year old, a 14 year old, and a 17 year old. All without diabetes. I think that if you asked them and all of their friends if they had mothers who wanted to "control" them they would all agree that they do.
Isn't that all part of the process at that age? The separating from parents to become their own person?
I don't think this tells us anything that we didn't already know---teens think their mothers are trying to run their lives!