기사
Parental Depression and Anxiety and Early Childhood Behavior Problems Across Family Types /
- 개인저자
- Meadows, Sarah O. ;, McLanahan, Sara S. ;, Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne;
- 수록페이지
- 1162-1177 p.
- 발행일자
- 2007.12.25
- 출판사
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
초록
[영문]Using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, we examine the association between parental major depressive and generalized anxiety disorders and child behavior problems across family types: married, cohabiting, involved nonresident father, and noninvolved nonresident father. Among 3-year-olds in all families, maternal anxiety/depression is associated with increased odds of anxious/depressed, attention deficit, and oppositional defiant disorders (N 2,120). Paternal anxiety/depression has no significant association with these problem behaviors; father's illness, however, exacerbates anxious/depressed behaviors in young children if both parents are ill and he is coresident. The findings underscore the importance of maternal mental health for child well-being and suggest that a negative interaction between parent illnesses is most likely when parents and children share the same disorder.