Parental depressive symptoms, children's representations of family relationships, and child adjustment
Parental depressive symptoms, children's representations of family relationships, and child adjustment
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9507.2007.00425.x
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发表时间：
2008-01-01
影响因子：
2
通讯作者：
Davies, Patrick T.
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作者：
Cummings, E. Mark;Schermerhorn, Alice C.;Davies, Patrick T.
本研究扩展了父母烦躁不安和儿童调整的家庭过程模型的调查，通过检查父亲和母亲的抑郁症状，并通过检查儿童的家庭关系的表征作为可能的解释机制。参与者是232名儿童（时间1平均年龄：5.99岁; 105名男孩，127名女孩）和他们的同居父母，他们连续三年参加。儿童的内部表征的多种家庭关系进行了评估，通过一个故事干完成任务。结构方程模型表明，儿童的父母间和附件表示的过程中，父母的抑郁症状影响儿童外化症状的一部分。母亲的抑郁症状也预示着随着时间的推移，孩子们对婚姻和依恋关系的表现会发生变化。家庭过程模型之间的关系，父母的抑郁症状在社区样本和儿童发展的影响进行了讨论。
This study extends the investigation of family process models of parental dysphoria and child adjustment, by examining depressive symptoms in both fathers and mothers, and by examining children's representations of family relationships as possible explanatory mechanisms. Participants were 232 children (Time 1 mean age: 5.99; 105 boys, 127 girls) and their cohabiting parents, who participated for three consecutive years. Children's internal representations of multiple family relationships were assessed by means of a story stem completion task. Structural equation modeling indicated that children's inter-parental and attachment representations are part of the process whereby parental depressive symptoms influence child externalizing symptoms. Maternal depressive symptoms also predicted changes in children's representations of marital and attachment relationships over time. The implications for family process models of relations between parental depressive symptoms in community samples and child development are discussed.