Title

Parental Depression, Parenting Behaviours, And Behaviour Problems In Young Children

Keywords

Behaviour problems; Depression; Parenting; Young children

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. © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Publication Title

Infant and Child Development

Volume

18

Issue

4

Number of Pages

323-336

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.598

Socpus ID

68349105175 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/68349105175

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