Parental Depressive Symptoms, Children's Representations of Family Relationships, and Child Adjustment

Autor/inn/en	Cummings, E. Mark; Schermerhorn, Alice C.; Keller, Peggy S.; Davies, Patrick T.
Titel	Parental Depressive Symptoms, Children's Representations of Family Relationships, and Child Adjustment
Quelle	In: Social Development, 17 (2008) 2, S.278-305 (28 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0961-205X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9507.2007.00425.x
Schlagwörter	Structural Equation Models; Attachment Behavior; Family Relationship; Depression (Psychology); Child Development; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Parent Influence; Adjustment (to Environment); Family Environment; Fathers; Mothers; Children; Predictor Variables; Parent Child Relationship; Marital Satisfaction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Kindesentwicklung; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Familienmilieu; Mother; Mutter; Child; Kind; Kinder; Prädiktor; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung
Abstract	This study extends the investigation of family process models of parental dysphoria and child adjustment, by examining depressive symptoms in both fathers and mothers, and by examining children's representations of family relationships as possible explanatory mechanisms. Participants were 232 children (Time 1 mean age: 5.99; 105 boys, 127 girls) and their cohabiting parents, who participated for three consecutive years. Children's internal representations of multiple family relationships were assessed by means of a story stem completion task. Structural equation modeling indicated that children's inter-parental and attachment representations are part of the process whereby parental depressive symptoms influence child externalizing symptoms. Maternal depressive symptoms also predicted changes in children's representations of marital and attachment relationships over time. The implications for family process models of relations between parental depressive symptoms in community samples and child development are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10