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Daily Sources of Autonomy-Supportive and Controlling Parenting in Mothers of Children with ASD: The Role of Child Behavior and Mothers’ Psychological Needs

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This study aimed to gain more insight in the sources of daily parenting among mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Specifically, we examined associations between daily variations in child behavior, mothers’ psychological needs, and mothers’ controlling and autonomy-supportive parenting. Moreover, the study examined the potential mediating role of daily vitality and stress within these associations. In total 41 mothers (Mage = 41.84 years) of children with ASD (Mage = 10.92 years, range 7–15) participated in a 7-day diary study. Multilevel structural equation modeling revealed that both daily child behavior (i.e., externalizing problems and prosocial behavior) and mothers’ psychological needs relate to day-to-day variation in parenting behavior. Daily stress and vitality played an intervening role in most of these associations.

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  1. Prior to the diary measurement, mothers filled out a number of well-validated baseline questionnaires, including the Child Behavior Checklist/6–18 (CBCL, Achenbach and Rescorla 2001), three items measuring prosocial behavior (two items from the prosociality scale (Caprara et al. 2005), and one item from the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ, Goodman 2001)), and the complete Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Need Frustration (BPNSNF) scale (24 items) (Chen et al. 2015). This allowed us to examine associations between the baseline measurements and the daily measurements of child behavior and maternal psychological needs. The supplementary appendix includes a description of the baseline measurements and a correlation table presenting the correlations between the general and daily measurements.

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This research was funded by grants from the Marguerite-Marie Delacroix Support Fund (GV/B-202) and the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (FWO) (12B4614N and 11X6516N). The authors wish to thank all the participating families for sharing their experiences. In addition, the authors wish to thank prof. Herbert Roeyers for his help with reviewing the diagnostic files, Rashida El Kaddouri, Chloè Bontinck and Ellen Demurie for administering the ADOS-2 and Sofie Velghe, Sigrid Verleyen, Katelijne Bogaerts, and Jolien Van Den Berge for helping with the data-collection. The authors also thank Dr. Thanasis Mouratidis and Joachim Waterschoot for their help with the data analysis.

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LD conceived of the study, participated in the design of the study, collected the data, performed the analyses, and drafted the manuscript. SD, BS, MV and PP conceived of the study, participated in its design, the coordination, and the interpretation of the data, and helped to draft the manuscript. NL participated in the design of the study, collected the data, participated in the interpretation of the data and helped to draft the manuscript.

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Dieleman, L.M., Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M. et al. Daily Sources of Autonomy-Supportive and Controlling Parenting in Mothers of Children with ASD: The Role of Child Behavior and Mothers’ Psychological Needs. J Autism Dev Disord 49, 509–526 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3726-3

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