Internalizing Problems in At-risk Preschoolers: Associations with Child and Mother Risk Factors

Burlaka, Viktor; Bermann, Eric; Graham‐Bermann, Sandra A.

doi:10.1007/s10826-014-0067-5

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“…Several child-level factors have been found to be associated with the development of child internalizing problems. Consistent with Zahn-Waxler's (1993) conceptual framework postulating that boys tend to have more adjustment problems than girls, one study of young children found that boys had higher scores than girls on internalizing problems (Burlaka, Bermann, & Graham-Bermann, 2015). However, a study of older children found that girls were more likely than boys to experience anxiety, and elementary-school-age children were at slightly higher risk for anxiety than children 13 to 18 years of age; 50% of cases of anxiety disorder emerge in children between 6 to 12 years of age (Costello, Egger, Copeland, Erkanli, & Angold, 2011).…”

Section: Child Age and Gender As Risk Factorsmentioning

confidence: 87%

Predictors of Internalizing Behaviors in Ukrainian Children

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Objective To (a) estimate the level of child internalizing problems in a sample of Ukrainian school-age children and (b) examine the relationships between child internalizing psychopathology and parenting practices, depression, alcohol use, and sociodemographics. Background Most research on child internalizing behaviors has used samples from high-income countries, but there is a lack of information about children’s behaviors and associated risk and protective factors from low- and middle-income countries such as Ukraine. An ecological–transactional model framework was used in this study to examine maternal and family-level factors associated with child internalizing behavior problems. Method Data were gathered from a community-based sample of Ukrainian mothers and children between 9 and 16 years of age (n = 251) using face-to-face interviews. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to examine the relationship among the independent variables (e.g., alcohol use, depression, and parenting behaviors) and children’s internalizing behaviors. Results Older children, especially boys, reported fewer internalizing problems. Increased internalizing symptomatology was associated with mothers’ older age, higher level of depression, lower use of positive parenting, and poor child monitoring and supervision. Conclusion These results raise awareness about the importance of child familial backgrounds while trying to address child mental health problems in Ukraine. Implications Family practitioners may want to help mothers learn and apply positive parenting and effective supervision and monitoring skills to help reduce their children’s depression and anxiety symptoms. Additionally, helping to decrease maternal depression may have a positive trickle-down effect on their children’s internalizing behaviors.

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Section: Child Age and Gender As Risk Factorsmentioning

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“…Prior research has found that the interplay of factors related to the individual child, family, and neighborhood determines behavioral problems in early childhood (e.g., Bubier, Drabick, & Breiner, ; Burlaka, Bermann, & Graham‐Bermann, ; Caughy, Nettles, & O'Campo, ; Plybon, & Kliewer, ; Ingoldsby et al., ; Shaw, Sitnick, Reuben, Dishion, & Wilson, ). For example, family economic difficulties increase the likelihood of behavioral problems (Brooks‐Gunn & Duncan, ; Duncan & Brooks‐Gunn, ).…”

Section: Neighborhood Poverty and Child Behavioral Problemsmentioning

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Is neighborhood poverty harmful to every child? Neighborhood poverty, family poverty, and behavioral problems among young children

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Lee

Jung

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Journal Community Psychology

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This longitudinal study investigates the association between neighborhood poverty and behavioral problems among young children. This study also examines whether social environments mediate the relationship between neighborhood poverty and behavioral problems. We used data from the third and fourth waves of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study to assess behavioral problems separately for children who experienced no family poverty, moved out of family poverty, moved into family poverty, and experienced long‐term family poverty. Regression models assessed the effect of neighborhood poverty on behavioral problem outcomes among children aged 5 years, after controlling for sociodemographic characteristics and earlier behavioral problems. Results showed an association between neighborhood poverty and lower social cohesion and safety, which lead to greater externalizing problems among children with long‐term family poverty living in high‐poverty neighborhoods compared with those in low‐poverty neighborhoods. Policies and community resources need to be allocated to improve neighborhood social environments, particularly for poor children in high‐poverty neighborhoods.

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“…Preschoolers with externalizing problems have been found to have higher levels of concurrent internalizing symptoms (Burlaka, Bermann, & Graham-Bermann, 2015; Gilliom & Shaw, 2004) and developmore internalizing symptoms later on (Fischer, Rolf, Hasazi, & Cummings, 1984; Gilliom & Shaw, 2004; Lavigne et al, 1998). In addition, children’s dysthymic symptoms have been found to last longer (by nearly 2 ½ years) when they experience comorbid externalizing problems (Kovacs, Obrosky, Gatsonis, & Richards, 1997).…”

Section: Depression and Child Behavior Problemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Longitudinal Study of Fathers’ and Young Children’s Depressive Symptoms

Tichovolsky

Griffith

Rolon-Arroyo

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Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

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Objective: Considerableresearch has examinedthe effects of maternal depression on children, but few studieshave focused on the relation between paternal and child depressive symptoms, particularly during early childhood. Even fewer studies have been longitudinal, leaving open questions about how paternal and child depression covary over time. The present study sought to address this gap by examining the relation between fathers’ and children’s depressive symptoms over a 3-year period. Method: Participants were153 preschool childrenwith behavior problems and their parents. Three longitudinal analytic approacheswere used to examine how father and child depression change together and predict one another over time.Additional analyses examined whetherexternalizing problems or maternal depression might account for the associations between fathers’ and children’s depressive symptoms. Results: Changes in paternal depression significantly predicted changes in father-reported and mother-reported child depressive symptoms. These effects were evident both in year-to-year fluctuations as well as in linear trajectories across the 3-year period. Cross-lagged analyses suggested that these relationsmay have beendriven by father-effects; paternal depression at one time point predicted child depression at the next time point, but child depression did not significantly predict later paternal depression. We found little evidence that externalizing problems or maternal depression accounted for the relations between fathers’ and children’s depressive symptoms. Conclusions: Results provide convergent evidencethat fathers’ depression may play an important role in the development of depressive symptoms in young children, and underscore the importance of including fathers in studies of depression in families.

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Internalizing Problems in At-risk Preschoolers: Associations with Child and Mother Risk Factors

Cited by 16 publications

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Predictors of Internalizing Behaviors in Ukrainian Children

Predictors of Internalizing Behaviors in Ukrainian Children

Is neighborhood poverty harmful to every child? Neighborhood poverty, family poverty, and behavioral problems among young children

A Longitudinal Study of Fathers’ and Young Children’s Depressive Symptoms

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