Mutual Relations Between Mothers' Depressive Symptoms and Hostile-Controlling Behavior and Young Children's Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior Problems

Marchand, Jennifer F.; Hock, Ellen; Widaman, Keith F.

doi:10.1207/s15327922par0204_01

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“…In his original factor analytic study of children's mental health symptomatology, Achenbach (1966) found twice as many boys to have an externalizing cluster as an internalizing cluster of behavior problems. Our data (like others: Achenbach, 1992;Marchand et al, 2002) also show co-occurrence of internalizing with externalizing behaviors in children.…”

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“…At age 4.5 years the co-occurrence of externalizing and internalizing behaviors was, for the total sample, r(111) = 0.21, p < 0.05 [girls, r(56) = 0.11, not significant; boys, r(53) = 0.31, p < 0.05]. Children's externalizing and internalizing behaviors sometimes exhibit such positive associations (Achenbach, 1992;Marchand et al, 2002), but we analyzed them separately because each was theoretically meaningful to us, research has suggested that externalizing and internalizing represent distinct constructs with different etiological pathways (Marchand & Hock, 1998), and the shared variance between the two was minimal.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Long‐term cumulative effects of childcare on children's mental development and socioemotional adjustment in a non‐risk sample: the moderating effects of gender

Bornstein

Hahn

Gist

et al. 2006

Early Child Development and Care

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We studied the long-term cumulative effects of two common indices of childcare-the total number of hours of non-maternal care and the mean hour-weighted child-to-caregiver ratio per caregiving situation-on mental development and socioemotional adjustment from birth to 4.5 years old in a non-risk middle-class sample of girls and boys after taking into consideration child (gender and sibling status), maternal (education and concepts of child development), and family selection (socioeconomic status [SES] factors. Childcare indices did not differ in girls and boys year by year. Children experienced less non-maternal care in their first year of life, but afterward children encountered more children in their caregiving situations in proportion to the number of caregivers. At age 4.5 years, girls scored higher on cognitive and language measures than boys, and boys exhibited more externalizing problem behaviors than girls. Hours of non-maternal care were not a predictor of mental development or socioemotional adjustment; however, the child-to-caregiver ratio was. For cognitive outcomes, the ratio exerted a positive effect on children from higher SES backgrounds versus no effect on children from average or lower SES backgrounds. For behavioral adjustment outcomes, a higher ratio was associated with fewer behavioral problems in girls and more behavioral problems in boys. Different basic indices of childcare appear to have different long-term cumulative effects for different domains of development in girls and boys.

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confidence: 99%

Long‐term cumulative effects of childcare on children's mental development and socioemotional adjustment in a non‐risk sample: the moderating effects of gender

Bornstein

Hahn

Gist

et al. 2006

Early Child Development and Care

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“…In contrast, work by Ge and colleagues (1996) suggests that parental hostility may be more strongly linked with one marker of externalizing behaviors, conduct problems (β = .24, p < .01), than one marker of internalizing problems, depressive symptoms (β =.10, ns). Similarly, results of a study by Marchand, Hock, and Widaman (2002) suggest that parental hostility is predictive of child externalizing (β = −.24, p < .05; hostility reverse scored), but not internalizing (β =.04, ns), symptoms. In conclusion, findings from the few existing studies examining differential associations of hostile parenting with child externalizing and internalizing problems appear to yield inconsistent findings and indicate a lack of consensus within the literature.…”

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Parenting and child externalizing behaviors: Are the associations specific or diffuse?

McKee

Colletti

Rakow

et al. 2008

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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Building upon the link between inadequate parenting and child noncompliance, aggression, and oppositionality, behavioral parent training has been identified as a well-established treatment for externalizing problems in children. Much less empirical attention has been devoted to examining whether inadequate parenting and, in turn, behavioral parent training programs, have specific effects on child externalizing problems or more diffuse effects on both internalizing and externalizing problems. As an initial attempt to examine the specificity of parenting and childhood externalizing problems, this review examines prior research on the association of three parenting behaviors (parental warmth, hostility, and control) with child externalizing versus internalizing problems. Notably, findings revealed relatively little evidence for the specificity of parenting and child externalizing behaviors in the general parenting literature or in the family context of parent depression. Clinical implications and directions for future research are discussed.

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“…Given the interpersonal deficits and relationship impairments associated with psychological maladjustment (Horowitz, 2004;Segrin, 2001), it follows that the parent -child relationship is at risk when either mothers, fathers, or both exhibit elevated levels of psychological symptoms. In addition to depression and anxiety, we also included in this study the symptom dimension of hostility because angry expressions have been closely linked with disruptions in family relationships (e.g., Marchand, Hock, & Widaman, 2002). In a recent study, Calam, Bolton, Barrowclough, and Roberts (2002) assessed 61 mothers and their children (aged 4 to 11 years) who were referred for behavior problems.…”

Section: Parental Psychological Distress and The Parent -Child Relatimentioning

confidence: 99%

Parental Psychological Distress, Parent - Child Relationship Qualities, and Child Adjustment: Direct, Mediating, and Reciprocal Pathways

Papp¹,

Cummings²,

Goeke‐Morey³

2005

Parenting

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SYNOPSISObjective. The purpose of this study was to explicate the role of parenting qualities of acceptance, psychological autonomy, and firm control in the link between maternal and paternal psychological distress and youth adjustment problems. Design. A community sample of 277 families provided information about parental psychological distress, parenting qualities, and child adjustment via mother, father, and child questionnaire ratings. Results. Direct associations among the variables were consistent with predictions. Mediation processes were identified using structural equation modeling. Specifically, parental acceptance and psychological autonomy served as mediators of the association between parental psychological distress and child problems, whereas firm control did not mediate the direct associations. Conclusions. Drawing on a developmental psychopathology perspective, this study's results indicate that the link between mother and father psychological distress and child adjustment problems is accounted for, in part, by parental acceptance and psychological autonomy than by behavioral control. Alternative pathways among these family processes also received empirical support.

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Mutual Relations Between Mothers' Depressive Symptoms and Hostile-Controlling Behavior and Young Children's Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior Problems

Cited by 75 publications

References 24 publications

Long‐term cumulative effects of childcare on children's mental development and socioemotional adjustment in a non‐risk sample: the moderating effects of gender

Long‐term cumulative effects of childcare on children's mental development and socioemotional adjustment in a non‐risk sample: the moderating effects of gender

Parenting and child externalizing behaviors: Are the associations specific or diffuse?

Parental Psychological Distress, Parent - Child Relationship Qualities, and Child Adjustment: Direct, Mediating, and Reciprocal Pathways

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