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Maternal and Paternal Depressive Symptoms as Predictors of Toddler Adjustment
- Source :
- Journal of Child and Family Studies. 18:39-47
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2008.
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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.
- Subjects :
- digestive, oral, and skin physiology
Injury prevention
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Poison control
Human factors and ergonomics
Toddler
Life-span and Life-course Studies
Psychology
Depression screening
Suicide prevention
Depressive symptoms
Occupational safety and health
Developmental psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15732843 and 10621024
- Volume :
- 18
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Child and Family Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........ec995acbbc92d2aef0cafc3aa9074497