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Mothers’ Depressive Symptoms and Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors: Examining Reciprocal Trait-State Effects from Age 2 to 15

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: Using a large sample from the National Institute of Child Health and Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 1,178, 51% were male and 80% were White), the random intercept cross-lagged panel model was employed to unpack the trait and state aspects in the relations between mothers' depressive symptoms and children's behavioral problems from age 2 to 15. The transactional predictions among mothers' depressive symptoms and children's behavioral problems were largely attributed to their correlations at the underlying trait level (rs = .458-.528). At the state level, the mutual influences among mothers' depressive symptoms and children's behavior problems occurred more often during periods of transition. With that said, the child effects hypothesis was not supported.

Source: Child Development

DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13609

Authors: Ni Yan, Yuan Liu, Arya Ansari, Keman Li, Xile Li

Institutions: Southwest University, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, The Ohio 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: bronze

Funders: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chongqing Social Science Planning Fund, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities