The longitudinal relationship between child emotional disorder and parental mental health in the British Child and Adolescent Mental Health surveys 1999 and 2004

Wilkinson, Kath; Ball, Susan; Mitchell, Siobhán; Ukoumunne, Obioha C; O’Mahen, Heather; Hayes, Rachel; Berry, Vashti; Petrie, Isabella Violet Kilgobbin; Ford, Tamsin

doi:10.1016/j.jad.2021.03.059

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“…That said, we have relied on self-reported survey data so this may introduce some self-report bias, and also the possibility that family socialization and adolescent drinking are interdependent. There is some evidence that survey measures of parenting and outcomes are dynamically and dyadically determined by youth and parents (Bell & Chapman, 1986;Lytton, 2000;Wilkinson et al, 2021).…”

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Testing socioeconomic status and family socialization hypotheses of alcohol use in young people: A causal mediation analysis

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Journal of Adolescence

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Introduction:The effect of socioeconomic status on adolescent substance abuse may be mediated by family socialization practices. However, traditional mediation analysis using a product or difference method is susceptible to bias when assumptions are not addressed. We aimed to use a potential outcomes framework to assess assumptions of exposure-mediator interaction and of no confounding of the results. Method: We revisited a traditional mediation analysis with a multiple mediator causal mediation approach using data from 17,761 Norwegian young people (13-18 years), 51% female. Data were collected through a print questionnaire. Socioeconomic status was operationalized as parental education and employment status (employed or receiving welfare); drinking behavior as the frequency of alcohol consumption and frequency of intoxication in the past year; and socialization practices as general parenting measures, alcohol-related parental permissiveness, and parent drinking behavior.Results: There was no consistent evidence of exposure-mediator interaction. Formal sensitivity analysis of mediator-outcome confounding was not possible in the multiple mediator model, and this analysis supported the hypothesis that socioeconomic status effects on adolescent substance abuse are fully mediated by family socialization practices, with apparently stronger effects in younger age groups observed in plots. Conclusion:We found that the effect of socioeconomic status on adolescent substance abuse was fully mediated by family socialization practices. While our analysis provides more rigorous support for causal inferences than past work, we could not completely rule out the possibility of unmeasured confounding.

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Testing socioeconomic status and family socialization hypotheses of alcohol use in young people: A causal mediation analysis

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Matley

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Journal of Adolescence

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“…Strong cross‐sectional associations between poor parental mental health and poorer family functioning with probable mental health conditions are worrying, given parents with small children were particularly vulnerable to deteriorating mental health (Pierce et al., 2020), and poor parental mental health predicts subsequent emotional disorder in their children (Wilkinson et al., 2021). The Co‐SPACE study highlighted high levels of stress for parents in balancing their work and child‐care commitments (Raw et al., 2021).…”

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“…The increase was seen in boys and girls, all age groups and all regions of the country, while young women remained at particularly high risk (1 in 4 vs. 1 in 8 17-to 19-year-old boys). In contrast, two repeated surveys of 13-to 14-year-olds conducted in October 2019 and April 2020 revealed no change in symptoms of anxiety, depression or well-being, but significant improvements among those scoring above clinical cut-off points in October (Widnall, Winstone, Mars, Haworth, & Kidger, 2020).Strong cross-sectional associations between poor parental mental health and poorer family functioning with probable mental health conditions are worrying, given parents with small children were particularly vulnerable to deteriorating mental health (Pierce et al, 2020), and poor parental mental health predicts subsequent emotional disorder in their children (Wilkinson et al, 2021).…”

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Debate: Is there a true global children and young people's mental health crisis, fact or fiction?

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2021

Child Adoles Ment Health

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Despite lurid headlines suggesting a Tsunami of mental health conditions among children and young people (CYP) unleashed by the pandemic, our major problem is the lack of robust data. The McGill living systematic review screened approaching 50,000 abstracts by the end of April 2021, of which only 594 met the inclusion criteria; only 4 of the 79 with data extracted thus far relate to CYP, all from outside the United Kingdom (see https://www.depressd.ca/covid-19-mental-health). Prevalence estimates are extremely sensitive to sample selection, and measurement weighting can only partially address selection bias; however, large the sample and non-probability samples lack a theoretical basis for statistical inference.The mental health of CYP was deteriorating prior to COVID-19, while outcomes for those with poor mental health may be worse this century compared to earlier cohorts (Sellers et al., 2019). Only a quarter of those with a mental health condition were in contact with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in the national survey of 2-to 19-year-olds in England conducted in 2017, which struggled with long waiting lists, despite rejecting 1 in 4 referrals (Crenna-Jennings & Hutchinson, 2020).So what do we know about the impact of the pandemic and the resulting restrictions in the United Kingdom? In the July 2020, the follow-up of the national survey was carried out. The number of 5-to 19-year-olds with a probable mental health condition increased from 1 in 9 to 1 in 6 (Vizard et al., 2020). The increase was seen in boys and girls, all age groups and all regions of the country, while young women remained at particularly high risk (1 in 4 vs. 1 in 8 17-to 19-year-old boys). In contrast, two repeated surveys of 13-to 14-year-olds conducted in October 2019 and April 2020 revealed no change in symptoms of anxiety, depression or well-being, but significant improvements among those scoring above clinical cut-off points in October (Widnall, Winstone, Mars, Haworth, & Kidger, 2020).Strong cross-sectional associations between poor parental mental health and poorer family functioning with probable mental health conditions are worrying, given parents with small children were particularly vulnerable to deteriorating mental health (Pierce et al., 2020), and poor parental mental health predicts subsequent emotional disorder in their children (Wilkinson et al., 2021).

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“…According to the National Institute of Mental Health (4), 12.5% of 12-17-year-olds in the United States have experienced symptoms of a major depressive episode for up to 12 months, and nearly a fifth of them have experienced a major depressive episode in the middle and later stages of their adolescence. While a prevailing view is that parents are in the position to exert power and influence their offspring's mental health [e.g., (5)(6)(7)(8)], there is a growing consensus that children's mental health problems also affect parental mental health (9)(10)(11)(12). Such that depression in adolescents represents a potential risk factor for the development of parents' mental health difficulties (13,14).…”

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Adolescents' depressive moods and parents' family-work interaction

2023

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionFor working parents with dependent children, parenthood is essential to their “life” component, which could profoundly influence their work experiences. Since depressive moods rise sharply in adolescence, this study aims to investigate the relationship between children's depressive moods and parental family-work interaction. Integrating the literature on emotions and family-work interaction, I propose that adolescents' depressive moods (over the past 2 weeks) decrease parents' work engagement via increased parents' family-work conflict. Further, I hypothesize that adolescent performance-avoidance, a key trait related to adolescents' long-term emotional experiences, moderates the indirect relationship.MethodsUsing a multiple-source, time-lagged design, I tested hypotheses using data collected from 468 adolescent-parent dyadic from China.ResultsI found that adolescents' depressive moods relate negatively to their parents' work engagement via increased parents' family-work conflict when adolescents have low levels of performance-avoidance. When an adolescent has a high level of performance-avoidance, parents show a relatively higher degree of family-work conflict and lower work engagement regardless of adolescents' depressive moods.DiscussionI discuss the theoretical and practical implications for employee family-work interaction and work engagement.

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The longitudinal relationship between child emotional disorder and parental mental health in the British Child and Adolescent Mental Health surveys 1999 and 2004

Cited by 12 publications

References 70 publications

Testing socioeconomic status and family socialization hypotheses of alcohol use in young people: A causal mediation analysis

Testing socioeconomic status and family socialization hypotheses of alcohol use in young people: A causal mediation analysis

Debate: Is there a true global children and young people's mental health crisis, fact or fiction?

Adolescents' depressive moods and parents' family-work interaction

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