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Parental Depression, Overreactive Parenting, and Early Childhood Externalizing Problems: Moderation by Social Support

Year: 2018

Type: article

Study design: Observational Study

Abstract: This study used a large (N = 519), longitudinal sample of adoptive families to test overreactive parenting as a mediator of associations between parental depressive symptoms and early childhood externalizing, and parents' social support satisfaction as a moderator. Maternal parenting (18 months) mediated the association between maternal depressive symptoms (9 months) and child externalizing problems (27 months). Paternal parenting was not a significant mediator. Unexpectedly, we found a cross-over effect for the moderating role of social support satisfaction, such that partners' social support satisfaction reduced the strength of the association between each parent's own depressive symptoms and overreactive parenting. Results point to the importance of accounting for broader family context in predicting early childhood parenting and child outcomes.

Source: Child Development

DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13027

Authors: Lindsay Taraban, Daniel S Shaw, Leslie D Leve, Misaki N Natsuaki, Jody M Ganiban, David Reiss, Jenae M Neiderhiser

Institutions: University of Pittsburgh, University of Oregon, University of California, Riverside, George Washington University, Yale University, Pennsylvania State University

Language: English

Topic: Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action

Awards: G1875529752, The Early Growth and Development Study: Family Process, Genes and School Entry, Gene-Environment Interplay and Development of Psychiatric Symptoms in Children, Genes, Prenatal Drug Exposure, and the Postnatal Environment: An Adoption Study, The Early Growth and Development Study Cohort of the ECHO Program, The Early Growth and Development Study Cohort of the ECHO Program

OpenAlex ID: W2790834500

FWCI: 4.105

Cites: 72

Cited by: 47

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