Maternal and Paternal Depressive Symptoms as Predictors of Toddler Adjustment

Autor/inn/en	Weinfield, Nancy S.; Ingerski, Lisa; Moreau, Stacey Coffey
Titel	Maternal and Paternal Depressive Symptoms as Predictors of Toddler Adjustment
Quelle	In: Journal of Child and Family Studies, 18 (2009) 1, S.39-47 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1062-1024
DOI	10.1007/s10826-008-9205-2
Schlagwörter	Marital Satisfaction; Toddlers; Prediction; Depression (Psychology); Mothers; Fathers; Adjustment (to Environment); Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Screening Tests; Behavior Problems + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Vorhersage; Mother; Mutter; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Screening-Verfahren
Abstract	In this study we explored the relation between maternal and paternal depressive symptoms and toddler adjustment in a community sample, testing direct, additive, and interactive models of parental depressive symptoms and child adjustment. Participants were 49 families with 30-month-old children. Data were collected on maternal and paternal depressive symptoms and marital quality, as well as on toddler internalizing and externalizing behavior. The data supported an additive, but not interactive, model of prediction to externalizing behavior, such that maternal and paternal symptoms each accounted for unique variance in the prediction of toddler externalizing. Models predicting toddler internalizing were not significant. Maternal reports of marital quality, but not paternal reports of marital quality, reduced the magnitude of the relation between symptoms and child externalizing when entered as a covariate. Implications for depression screening of parents are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10