The Curvilinear Effect of Mothers' Parenting Stress and Attunement on Children's Internalizing Symptoms: A Six Wave Study of Mother-Youth Dyads across the Transition to Adolescence

Autor/inn/en	Arbel, Reout; Margolin, Gayla; O'Connor, Sydney G.; Mason, Tyler B.; Leventhal, Adam M.; Dunton, Genevieve F.
Titel	The Curvilinear Effect of Mothers' Parenting Stress and Attunement on Children's Internalizing Symptoms: A Six Wave Study of Mother-Youth Dyads across the Transition to Adolescence
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 56 (2020) 7, S.1316-1330 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Arbel, Reout)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000932
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Child Rearing; Stress Variables; Children; Early Adolescents; Parent Child Relationship; Mental Disorders; Correlation; Parent Influence; Gender Differences; Age Differences; Depression (Psychology); Anxiety; Racial Differences; Ethnicity; California (Los Angeles) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Kindererziehung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit; Korrelation; Geschlechterkonflikt; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Angst; Rassenunterschied; Ethnizität
Abstract	We aimed to test how deviations in a mother's own parenting stress (PS) levels across her child's transition to adolescence contribute to subsequent changes in her child's internalizing symptom levels. We tested both linear and curvilinear effects, as well as the extent to which a child's perception of his or her mother's attunement alters these links. We further explored whether overall maternal PS levels (relative to the other mothers) further moderate the within-dyad association. These effects were tested in a community sample consisting of 202 mother-child dyads during transition to early adolescence. The dyads were examined within and across six waves, each separated by 6 months. During each wave, the mothers (M[subscript age] at baseline = 40.1 years [SD = 6.1]) reported on their PS, while children (M[subscript age] at baseline = 10.1 years [SD = 0.90]) reported on their internalizing symptoms and their perceived maternal attunement. Multilevel within-dyad analyses revealed a U-shaped effect of mothers' PS on concurrent child symptoms, whereas the prospective association was not significant. Maternal attunement moderated the concurrent effects, changing the tipping point at which the concurrent potential benefits of rising PS were outweighed by the potential negative consequences of overburdening the child. Increases in PS prospectively predicted increased symptoms in the child but not when maternal attunement was above the mothers' average level. Global PS levels did not moderate these effects. The results underscore the contribution made by mothers' PS to the emotional trajectories of their children and show that these effects vary as a function of deviations in maternal attunement. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01