Purpose of the Study
The present research aims to confirm the findings of the previous research studies that show links and relationships between chaos in the household, child, parenting, and family outcomes. The study was conducted to measure household chaos, map the existing literature regarding links between household chaos and parenting, and chart study details of the previous related literature. The study found evidence for significant relationships between chaos in the household and adverse parenting outcomes which further explained that the representation of the chaos by the level of disorganization in a house or family has been associated with a range of detrimental impacts on families and particularly children. The study also found that chaos or environmental confusion in the household is able to work in a potent way that is associated with poor executive functioning in the homes and lives of children in particular.
Results of the Research Study
The research study deduced results that confirmed that household chaos or disorganization in the household is predictive of problematic behavior due to chaotic parenting. The study inferred that chaos in the household was associated with decreased positive parenting, decreased closeness, less favorable co-parenting, enhanced parent-child conflict, less supportive parenting, decreased parent-child emotional availability, and increased negative parenting. It is also concluded in the results of the research that household chaos played the role of moderator between children’s behavior and parenting which led to decreased positive parenting and increased problematic or negative parenting. Moreover, the results of the study indicated that household chaos not only provided a significant correlation of a child’s problematic behavior but also the prediction of difficulties of the younger siblings.
Method of Study for Research Aim 3
Research aim 3 of the study was about the moderating role of chaos in households and its relationship with children’s behavior and parenting. Researchers used a “hierarchical multiple regression equation” for the rating of the parent-child relationship. The study examined the potential differential effects of disorganization and instability on parental responsiveness through the ratings of child-parent relationships in the household chaos. The research also explored the direct effects of childhood chaos on child executive functions and indirect effects via paternal and maternal reports of both positive effects and negative effects as well as warmth and enjoyment for younger siblings. The researchers constructed the sample into groups consisting of “low chaos and high chaos using a median split” to find out whether the paternal or maternal side is potent in household chaos to which they found that “fathering” was “more potent in high chaos” households. However, the substantial correlation between chaos in households and parenting was negligible in low chaos homes (Coldwell et al., 2006).
Type of Analysis
The research confirmed the links and correlation of household chaos and parenting based on previous studies that were primarily conducted in the south of England where over 100 schools were approached to collect the data. Furthermore, researchers visited families at their homes and interviewed them. The selected sample of families was from a mix of backgrounds of middle-class and working-class participants. The research study employed a “multi-informant methodology” which takes parenting reports of both parents and children into account (Coldwell et al., 2006). Moreover, the research design used in the study was primarily non-experimental which is often employed when it is not ethical or feasible to control the target environment and manipulate variables. This method was primarily used in the research because of the practical constraints as conducting experimental research could be time-consuming and ethical considerations as research could not manipulate parenting styles for research purposes. Another reason for selecting this research design method is that the non-experimental method allows researchers to observe and analyze naturally occurring levels of household chaos and its detrimental effects on families and children.
References
Coldwell, J., Pike, A., & Dunn, J. (2006). Household chaos–links with parenting and child behaviour. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 47(11), 1116–1122.
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