Mothers' Early Depressive Symptoms and Children's First-Grade Adjustment: A Transactional Analysis of Child Withdrawal as a Mediator

Autor/inn/en	Yan, Ni; Dix, Theodore
Titel	Mothers' Early Depressive Symptoms and Children's First-Grade Adjustment: A Transactional Analysis of Child Withdrawal as a Mediator
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 55 (2014) 5, S.495-504 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-9630
DOI	10.1111/jcpp.12189
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Depression (Psychology); Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Student Adjustment; Elementary School Students; Grade 1; Child Development; Withdrawal (Psychology); Interpersonal Competence; Academic Achievement; Behavior Problems; Parent Child Relationship; Structural Equation Models + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Student; Students; Adjustment; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Adaptation; School year 01; 1. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 01; Kindesentwicklung; Rückzugsverhalten; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Schulleistung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung
Abstract	Background: The depression-inhibition hypothesis suggests that mothers' depressive symptoms undermine development because they lead children to withdraw from social contact. To test this, this study examined whether poor first-grade adjustment among children of mothers with depressive symptoms is mediated by the emergence of child withdrawal in early development. Methods: Based on 1,364 dyads, four waves of data spanning from 24 months to first grade (7 years) were used to examine paths by which children's withdrawal mediates relations between mothers' early depressive symptoms and three first-grade outcomes: social competence, academic performance, and externalizing behavior problems. Results: Structural equation modeling revealed three principal paths. First, direct relations were observed: Mothers' depressive symptoms predicted early child withdrawal and increases in child withdrawal over time, which predicted poor first-grade adjustment. Second, reciprocal relations were observed: Mothers' depressive symptoms predicted child withdrawal, which predicted increases in depressive symptoms. Third, relations via mother-child mutual responsiveness were observed: Depression-related increases in child withdrawal predicted declines in mutual responsiveness, which predicted poor first-grade adjustment. Conclusion: The findings suggest that, due to its interdependence with maternal depression and low mother-child mutual responsiveness over time, child withdrawal may play an important role in the poor first-grade adjustment of children whose mothers are high in depressive symptoms. (As Provided).
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