Maternal Depression and Youth Internalizing and Externalizing Symptomatology: Severity and Chronicity of Past Maternal Depression and Current Maternal Depressive Symptoms

O’Connor, Erin; Langer, David A.; Tompson, Martha C.

doi:10.1007/s10802-016-0185-1

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“…A growing body of research clearly indicates the contribution of maternal mental health and well-being to children's behavioral and emotional outcomes (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6), but fewer studies have focused on the relational predictors of maternal mental health and well-being. Partner social support (7)(8)(9)(10)(11), and more importantly, fathers' active participation in childcare responsibilities (12,13), appear to be important predictors of maternal mental health and well-being.…”

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Perceived Paternal Involvement, Relationship Satisfaction, Mothers' Mental Health and Parenting Stress: A Multi-Sample Path Analysis

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Research has demonstrated the short-and long-term impacts of maternal mental health and well-being on children's emotional and behavioral outcomes. It is thus important to better understand the antecedents of maternal depression and stress. The aim of this study was to determine whether the contribution of perceived paternal involvement to account for mothers' depression and parental stress was mediated by relationship factors such as parenting alliance and dyadic adjustment. A second aim was to determine whether these relationships hold equally true in mothers of infants and young toddlers (0-24 months) and mothers of older children (25 months and older). Cross-sectional data were collected from 447 mothers. Mothers reported on their perceptions of paternal involvement with childcare responsibilities, dyadic adjustment, parenting alliance, parenting stress, and depression. Multi-sample path modeling analyses were conducted. Results revealed that perceived paternal involvement was positively related to both dyadic adjustment and parental alliance, that parenting alliance was negatively related to all three subscales of parenting stress and mothers' depression but that dyadic adjustment was negatively related to parenting distress (one subscale of parenting stress) and mothers' depression. Results from the multi-sample analyses indicated that the pattern of relationships was the same in the two groups, but that the model was not invariant. The most notable difference was that parenting alliance did not significantly account for depression in the mothers of younger children. Correlates of maternal mental health and well-being identified in this study could be useful when designing psychological interventions for mothers and fathers.

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Perceived Paternal Involvement, Relationship Satisfaction, Mothers' Mental Health and Parenting Stress: A Multi-Sample Path Analysis

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“…Maternal sociodemographic variables, such as income, education, age, and whether they had a paid job, were compared between the non-clinical and clinical groups and the samples were found to be homogeneous. In this study, indicators of maternal depression were identified using PHQ-9 and was the criterion used to organize the groups; thus, it was a controlled independent variable, considering that the levels of mothers’ depressive symptoms differently impact child behavior (O’Connor, Langer, & Tompson, 2017 ). The analysis in which variables are controlled enabled establishing relationships between the variables of interest.…”

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Behavioral problems and their relationship to maternal depression, marital relationships, social skills and parenting

Bolsoni-Silva

Loureiro

2020

Psicol. Refl. Crít.

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Behavioral problems have been associated with multiple variables; however, studies simultaneously investigating parenting practices, marital relationships in bi-parental families, maternal depression, and child behavior remain a gap in the literature. The objective was to verify associations between positive and negative parenting practices, marital relationships, social skills, and behavioral problems among children from bi-parental families with and those without maternal depression; to identify the predictive effect of positive and negative parenting practices, marital relationships, children’s social skills, and maternal depression, for internalizing, externalizing behavior problems and internalizing and externalizing comorbidities. A case-control study with a cross-sectional design was adopted to ensure the groups were homogeneous in regard to the children’s, mothers’, and families’ sociodemographic characteristics. A total of 35 mothers currently with depression and 35 without depression indicators participated in the study, while the children were 25 preschoolers and 23 school-aged children. The mothers responded to instruments addressing depression, child behavior, parenting practices, and marital relationships. The results reveal maternal depression associated with marital relationships, positive parenting, and context variables. Maternal depression and marital relationship were found to influence externalizing problems; maternal depression, child-rearing practices, marital relationships, and the children’s behavioral repertoires influence internalizing and externalizing comorbidities; and none of the independent variables influenced the occurrence of internalizing problems.

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“…Children of depressed mothers are at increased risk for experiencing internalizing symptoms of depression and anxiety throughout development (e.g., Kouros & Garber, 2010;Mennen, Negriff, Schneidermann, & Trickett, 2018;O'Connor, Langer, & Tompson, 2017; see also Connell & Goodman, 2002). For example, offspring of depressed mothers are four to six times more likely to experience depressive symptoms themselves, and continue to experience risk for recurrent depression and associated negative outcomes into adulthood (Beardslee, Versage, & Gladstone, 1998;Weissman et al, 2016).…”

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Children’s self-blame appraisals about their mothers’ depressive symptoms and risk for internalizing symptoms.

Kouros¹,

Wee²,

Carson³

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Journal of Family Psychology

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Maternal depressive symptoms are a robust predictor of children's risk for internalizing symptoms; yet not all children are negatively affected by exposure to their mothers' symptoms. The present study tested children's self-blame appraisals as a moderator of the association between maternal depressive symptoms and children's internalizing symptoms, controlling for children's negative attributional style. We hypothesized that the relation between maternal depressive symptoms and children's internalizing symptoms would be stronger for children who blamed themselves more for their mothers' symptoms. Participants were 129 mother-child dyads (M child age = 13.63, SD = 2.2; 52.7% female; 38.8% White, 31% African American, 22.5% Latinx/Hispanic) recruited from the community. Results indicated that maternal depressive symptoms were associated with higher levels of children's internalizing symptoms for children who reported higher, but not lower, levels of self-blame appraisals. Results were consistent using mothers' or children's reports of their own and each other's symptoms. The findings highlight the importance of assessing children's appraisals about their mothers' depressive symptoms, and suggest that preventive interventions should target children who endorse higher levels of selfblame appraisals. Further, children's self-blame appraisals about mothers' depressive symptoms should be considered as a target of treatment for child internalizing disorders.

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Maternal Depression and Youth Internalizing and Externalizing Symptomatology: Severity and Chronicity of Past Maternal Depression and Current Maternal Depressive Symptoms

Cited by 26 publications

References 28 publications

Perceived Paternal Involvement, Relationship Satisfaction, Mothers' Mental Health and Parenting Stress: A Multi-Sample Path Analysis

Perceived Paternal Involvement, Relationship Satisfaction, Mothers' Mental Health and Parenting Stress: A Multi-Sample Path Analysis

Behavioral problems and their relationship to maternal depression, marital relationships, social skills and parenting

Children’s self-blame appraisals about their mothers’ depressive symptoms and risk for internalizing symptoms.

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