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Journal of Pediatric Psychology Advance Access originally published online on March 10, 2009
Journal of Pediatric Psychology 2009 34(10):1063-1068; doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jsp011
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Brief Report: Young Children's Risk of Unintentional Injury: A Comparison of Mothers’ and Fathers’ Supervision Beliefs and Reported Practices

Barbara A. Morrongiello, PhD, Beverly Walpole, MA and Brae Anne McArthur, MA

Psychology Department, University of Guelph

All correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Barbara A. Morrongiello, Psychology Department, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1. E-mail: bmorrong{at}uoguelph.ca


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Objective There is increasing interest in understanding how parent supervision influences young children's risk of injury, but nearly all of this research has been conducted with mothers. The present study compared first-time mothers’ and fathers’ supervisory beliefs and reported practices, and related these scores to parental reports of their child's history of injuries. Methods Mothers and fathers of children 2–5 years each independently completed a telephone interview and previously validated questionnaires about their supervisory beliefs and practices and their child's history of injuries. Results Mothers and fathers provided similar reports of their child's injuries (minor, medically attended) and scored similarly on various supervision indices. Despite these similarities, the way mothers’ and fathers’ supervision indices related to children's injury history scores differed. Children's frequency of minor and medically attended injuries was predicted from maternal supervisory scores but not from paternal scores. Conclusions Maternal supervision has more impact on children's risk of injury than paternal supervision, possibly because mothers spend more time with children than fathers.

Key words: children; mothers and fathers; supervision; unintentional injury.

Received July 18, 2008; revision received February 3, 2009; accepted February 3, 2009


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