LifeCourse A Melbourne Children's Research Initiative

VIHCS: Family environment

Relevant LifeCourse Constructs	Year	2006-2013	2006-2013	2007-2014	2015-2021
	Wave	Antenatal	Postnatal	Infancy	Childhood
	Age	28-41 weeks gestation	4-31 weeks	50-77 weeks	96-114 months
	N	806	877	975	878
Attachment behaviour			P:MFAS ^M	P:PBQ ^M	P:PBQ ^M
Capacity for emotion						P:FMSS ^I
Family violence				P:PBQ ^M	P:PBQ ^M
Life events			P:LTE ^M
Number of siblings				P:SV-SI ^I	P:SV-SI ^I
Parental self-efficacy			P:MFAS ^M		P:VIHCS ^M ¹
Parent-child relationship						S:CATS ^I ²
Parenting behaviour			P:MFAS ^M		P:VIHCS ^M ³	P:LSAC ^P ⁴
Relationship satisfaction			P:DAS ^M			P:DAS ^P
Sibling relationship						S:VIHCS ^I ⁵
Social support			P:VIHCS ^M		P:MSSS ^M

Featured measurements

CATS: : Child to Adult Transition Study-devised measure
DAS: : Dyadic Adjustment Scale
FMSS: : Five Minute Speech Sample
LTE: : List of Threatening Experiences
LSAC: : Longitudinal Study of Australian Children-devised measure
MFAS: : Maternal-Fetal Attachment Scale
MSSS: : Maternity Social Support Scale
PBQ: : Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire
SV-SI: : Study Version - Siblings Information measure
VIHCS: : Victorian Intergenerational Health Cohort Study-devised measure

Notes

Items from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study – Birth Cohort [ECLS-B] (U.S. Department of Education) (Parent Interview) as modified for The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC)

Items adapted by CATS from IYDS

Items from the Child Rearing Questionnaire, the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study of Children – Birth Cohort [ECLS-B] (U.S. Department of Education, 2001) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth 1998-1999 [NLSCY] (Statistics Canada, 2000) as modified for the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) (Parent Interview – Wave 3)

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Items adapted by LSAC from the Child Rearing Questionnaire, Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), and the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth 1998-1999 (NLSCY)

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Items adapted from the Relatedness questionnaire

Legend

B: = Biosample collected
BA: = Biosample analysis
G: = Grandparent(s) completed questionnaire
L: = Data linkage
N: = Nurse completed questionnaire
O: = Observation or direct assessment
Of: = Offspring completed questionnaire
P: = Parent/guardian completed questionnaire
Pe: = Peer completed questionnaire
R: = Records abstraction
S: = Self (primary participant) completed questionnaire
T: = Teacher completed questionnaire
X: = Other source
X ^F: = Pertains to father
X ^Fam: = Pertains to family
X ^G: = Pertains to grandparent(s)
X ^I: = Pertains to primary participant
X ^IP: = Pertains to partner
X ^M: = Pertains to mother
X ^O: = Pertains to offspring
X ^P: = Pertains to parent/guardian(s)
X ^Pe: = Pertains to peers
X ^Si: = Pertains to sibling(s)
X ^T: = Pertains to teacher(s)
X ^X: = Pertains to other reportees

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