Correction to: “The way she smiles brightens me up”: Highlights of parenting an infant in a large Nationally diverse cohort

Correction to: Current Psychology

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-018-0014-5

The original version of this article unfortunately contained mistakes.

The likelihood ratios for the regression tables were incorrect and a rounding error had been applied to the p values, which we have corrected in the revised tables.

Please note this oversight does not change our findings except in one case, i.e. the finding for ethnicity for the Child Health and Development highlight.

We have provided alterations for the text to reflect the change in this finding. Two paragraphs needed to be amended - the first in the results section and the second in the Discussion.

The authors apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Amended paragraph 1:

Child Health and Development ‘Child health and development’ was the second most prevalent highlight, reported by 32% of mothers in our study (N = 2051). A typical example of a highlight in this category is: “watching her grow and develop – meeting all her milestones”. Binomial logistic regression found that the odds of reporting ‘Child health and development’ highlights were greater for primiparous mothers (OR =2.09) compared to multiparous mothers. We found that European mothers had greater odds of reporting this highlight compared to Asian mothers (OR = 2.17), MELAA mothers (OR = 2.04) and Pacific mothers (OR = 1.33). Mothers who were in the top three quartiles of external support (OR = 1.38; 1.34 and 1.38 respectively) had consistently higher odds of reporting this highlight compared to mothers whose rated their external support in the lowest quartile. Similarly, mothers whose ratings of family support were in the second (OR = 1.29) or upper quartile (OR = 1.39) of family support had greater odds of reporting child and development highlights than those reporting the lowest levels of family support (see Table 7).

Amended paragraph 2:

European mothers were more likely to report the highlight ‘Child health and development’ compared to mothers of Asian, MELAA or Pacific ethnicity. According to Tamis-LeMonda et al. (2008), the research suggests that parents from collectivist and individualist cultures prioritise different developmental goals for their children. Individualist cultures, which includes the European culture, tend to value developmental goals that enable autonomy, while collectivist cultures tend to prioritise the development goal of relatedness. Reaching developmental milestones, such as beginning to walk and talk, contribute additively towards autonomy (Tamis-LeMonda et al. 2008), and these aspects of a child’s development are encompassed in this highlight, e.g., “watching her develope [sic] and become a person rather than a baby”. This may go some way towards explaining why European mothers were more likely to identify child health and development highlights than mothers of Asian, Pacific or MELAA ethnicities, who may endorse more collectivist cultures (Podsiadlowski and Fox 2011).

Amended Tables:

Table 6 Binary logistic regression model predicting reporting of the highlight: “Enjoyment of Child” using an Alpha level of .003

Table 7 Binary logistic regression model predicting reporting of the highlight: “Child’s Health and Development” using an Alpha level of .008

Table 8 Binary logistic regression model predicting reporting of the highlight: “Positive Effects on Family Relationships” using an Alpha level of .005

Table 9 Binary logistic regression model predicting reporting of the highlight: “Characteristics of Child” using an Alpha level of <.001

Table 10 Binary logistic regression model predicting reporting of the highlight: “Mother-Child Bonding” using an Alpha level of <.001

Table 11 Binary logistic regression model predicting reporting of the highlight: “Identity and Personal Growth” using an Alpha level of <.001