The Relationship of Maternal Depression to Parental Monitoring of Adolescents: Reports from Mother-Adolescent Dyads

Dawlett, Marie; Auslander, Beth A.; Rosenthal, Susan L.

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“…15 Maternal depression or anxiety in this pre-adolescent to adolescent age group of children may lead to greater isolation of the child, a lack of support in developing autonomy, and a lack of monitoring or supporting other behavioral changes. [16][17][18] Additionally, the data presented in this paper identify a novel association between fathers' mental health and child weight: fathers reporting positive mental health had lower odds of having a child with overweight/obesity, although the association did not remain when adjusting for confounders. Paternal mental health related to child weight has previously not been investigated.…”

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Parental Mental Health Associated With Child Overweight and Obesity, Examined Within Rural and Urban Settings, Stratified by Income

Foster

Weinstein

Mojica

et al. 2019

The Journal of Rural Health

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Purpose: Rural areas experience greater childhood obesity compared with urban areas. Differences in reported physical activity and dietary intake do not fully explain the disparity. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between parental mental health and childhood obesity within urban and rural areas. Methods:We used data from the National Survey of Children's Health, 2016, subset to children age 10-17 with available weight data. We stratified the sample by rural and urban settings and examined whether maternal or paternal mental health was associated with child overweight or obesity, accounting for income stratum (low-income: ≤ 200% federal poverty line; high-income, > 200%: federal poverty line). We used multivariable analyses to test if associations remained after including covariates of food security, physical activity, and screen time.Findings: For the 14,733 children 10-17 years of age in our sample, family income but not rurality was associated with overweight or obesity. Among high-income families, positive mental health of either the mother or the father was associated with lower odds of overweight or obesity. In multivariable models, the association between positive maternal mental health and lower odds of child overweight/obesity persisted after adjustment for family food security, child physical activity, and child screen time. For paternal mental health, the association was not significant after adjusting for these covariates.Conclusions: After stratification by income, there were no differences in childhood overweight/ obesity by rurality. Both maternal and paternal mental health are associated with children's weight, though only the maternal association remains after adjusting for covariates. Keywords children; health disparities; mental health; obesity; rural health For further information, contact: Byron A. Foster,

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Parental Mental Health Associated With Child Overweight and Obesity, Examined Within Rural and Urban Settings, Stratified by Income

Foster

Weinstein

Mojica

et al. 2019

The Journal of Rural Health

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“…Parental exposure to ACEs may lead to depressive symptomology as parents may develop unhealthy coping mechanisms (Campbell et al., 2016; Stevens, Colwell, Smith, Robinson, & McMillan, 2005) or are unable to learn effective parenting skills. For example, the effect of experiencing depressive symptomology, and perhaps an accumulation of comorbid disabling health outcomes (Campbell et al., 2016), may limit parental willingness or capacity to monitor adolescent behaviors (Dawlett, Auslander, & Rosenthal, 2010). As a result of limited parental monitoring, adolescents may feel free to engage in delinquency, vandalism, and associate with deviant peers (Davidson & Cardemil, 2009; Hoeve et al., 2009).…”

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The Intergenerational Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Hispanic Families: The Mediational Roles of Parental Depression and Parent–Adolescent Communication

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Parental exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) has been documented as a strong risk factor for subsequent externalizing behaviors in their youth. Although studies have investigated ACEs and their intergenerational association with youth externalizing behaviors, this association has not been investigated in Hispanic families. Additionally, substantial gaps in the literature exist explaining the mechanisms by which this association occurs. The purpose of this study was to examine whether parent–adolescent communication and parental depressive symptomatology explain the relationship between parent's ACE score and adolescent externalizing behaviors. This secondary data analysis utilized baseline data from an ongoing randomized controlled trial evaluating the relative effectiveness of an online parenting intervention for Hispanic adolescents. The sample consisted of 456 parents and their adolescents between the ages of 12–16. Using path modeling, parental depressive symptomatology and parent–adolescent communication were simultaneously examined as mechanisms that may explain the intergenerational relationship between parental exposure to ACEs and externalizing behaviors in Hispanic youth. Parental depressive symptomatology and parent–adolescent communication both significantly mediated the association between parental exposure to ACEs and adolescent externalizing behaviors. Understanding the mechanisms explaining the intergenerational association between parental exposure to ACEs and adolescent externalizing behaviors may aid future research examining problematic behaviors in Hispanic youth.

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Supportive fathers lessen the effects of mothers' alcohol problems on children's externalizing behaviors

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The Relationship of Maternal Depression to Parental Monitoring of Adolescents: Reports from Mother-Adolescent Dyads

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Parental Mental Health Associated With Child Overweight and Obesity, Examined Within Rural and Urban Settings, Stratified by Income

Parental Mental Health Associated With Child Overweight and Obesity, Examined Within Rural and Urban Settings, Stratified by Income

The Intergenerational Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Hispanic Families: The Mediational Roles of Parental Depression and Parent–Adolescent Communication

Supportive fathers lessen the effects of mothers' alcohol problems on children's externalizing behaviors

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