Parental Depression, Parenting Behaviours, and Behaviour Problems in Young Children

    Authors

    M. Middleton; S. L. Scott;K. Renk

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Infant Child Dev.

    Keywords

    depression; parenting; behaviour problems; young children; MATERNAL DEPRESSION; FATHERS; SYMPTOMS; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; MOTHERS; CONFLICT; Psychology, Developmental

    Abstract

    In the past, research has demonstrated that parental depression and parenting practices are related. More recently, there has been an increase in research examining child outcomes as they are related to maternal and paternal psychopathology. To continue with this line of research, this study examined the relationships among mothers' and fathers' symptoms of depression, characteristics of their parenting practices, and their ratings of their young children's internalizing and externalizing behaviour problems. The results of this study demonstrated that these variables are related significantly. Further, the results of this study suggested that mothers' parenting, particularly their limit setting with their young children, is an important predictor of their ratings of their young children's externalizing behaviour problems in the context of their own symptoms of depression. A different pattern of relationships may be present for fathers, as both their symptoms of depression and their parenting characteristics predicted their ratings of their young children's externalizing behaviour problems. Such findings were not supported for young children's internalizing behaviour problems. These findings suggested that interventions should have different targets for mothers and fathers. Copyright (c) 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

    Journal Title

    Infant and Child Development

    Volume

    18

    Issue/Number

    4

    Publication Date

    1-1-2009

    Document Type

    Article; Proceedings Paper

    Language

    English

    First Page

    323

    Last Page

    336

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000269158600002

    ISSN

    1522-7227

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