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The Relation between Mothers' Depressive Symptoms and Child Withdrawal in a U.S. Sample: The Mediational Role of Parenting Behavior

YAN Ni, YU Yao   

  1. Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715
  • Online:2017-01-15 Published:2017-01-15

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Abstract: This study aims to explore the association between maternal depression and child withdrawal by means of longitudinal research, to understand how changes in depressive symptoms among mothers may lead to changes in child withdrawal over time, and to understand the role of particular kinds of parenting in these associations. Data for the present study came from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. The data were analyzed using lierarchical linear modeling. The results showed that the correlation of children's withdrawal behavior and maternal depressive symptoms during 24 and 54 months was significant. All the three types of parenting were positively correlated with maternal depressive symptoms and children's withdrawal, except that parenting and child withdrawal were not significantly correlated at 54 months. Even though child withdrawal at 24 months was predicted by across-dyad variance in mother's early depressive symptoms regardless of the child's gender, the relation of within-dyad changes in the mother's depressive symptoms to the child withdrawal from 24 to 54 months was dependent on the child's gender. Changes in the mother's depressive symptoms predicted more changes in the withdrawal of boys than girls. Also, negative parenting mediated this relation only for boys. This suggests that, compared with girls, boys start to become more vulnerable to develop withdrawal from two years old if they have mothers with depressive symptoms.

Key words: mothers' depressive symptoms, child withdrawal, parenting

CLC Number: 

  • B844

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