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Prospective association of parental and child internalizing symptoms : mediation of parenting practices and irritability
- Source :
- Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Maternal internalizing symptoms have been linked with child internalizing symptoms, but paternal internalizing difficulties have received little attention. Our aims were to prospectively analyse the simultaneous effect of maternal and paternal internalizing symptoms on child internalizing difficulties, examining gender differences, and to verify the mediating effect of parenting practices and child irritability. The sample included 470 families assessed at child ages 3, 6, 8, and 11. Multi-group structural equation modelling was performed with Mplus8.2. Complete equivalence was found between boys and girls for all paths. Maternal internalizing symptoms at age 3 had an indirect effect on child internalizing symptoms at age 11, via irritability at age 8. Paternal internalizing symptoms at age 3 were not associated with any of the variables under study. Maternal internalizing symptoms and child irritability are targets for intervention in order to prevent child internalizing difficulties.
- Subjects :
- Male
Parents
Mediation (statistics)
health care facilities, manpower, and services
education
Irritability
Structural equation modeling
Fathers
03 medical and health sciences
Child Rearing
Sex Factors
0302 clinical medicine
Developmental Neuroscience
Intervention (counseling)
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Child
Association (psychology)
health care economics and organizations
Parenting
05 social sciences
030227 psychiatry
Child, Preschool
Parental psychopathology
Female
medicine.symptom
Psychology
050104 developmental & child psychology
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f1e6dee935860e7f8424b7a946b1da41