Maternal symptoms and emotional availability predicting children's behavior problems: A longitudinal study

IF 2.2 2区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-04 DOI:10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101753

Gizem Arikan , Ibrahim H. Acar , Asiye Kumru , Fatma Özge Ünsal

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Abstract

The longitudinal research focusing on the effects of maternal mental health on parenting capacity and child behavior problems during COVID-19 is still limited. Therefore, we examined how maternal symptoms of anxiety, depression, stress, and COVID-19-related stress affect maternal emotional availability at a 2-month follow-up and behavior problems at a 4-month follow-up. The mothers (N = 443) with pre-schoolers (Age Range = 30-80 months) responded to questionnaires at three time points. Maternal depression and stress positively predicted maternal hostility and negatively predicted maternal mutual attunement. Maternal hostility and mutual attunement mediated the associations between maternal depression and child externalization, as well as maternal stress and child externalization. Only hostility mediated the associations between maternal depression and stress with child internalization. We highlighted the role of maternal depression and stress in both positive and negative aspects of emotional availability that could possibly shape child externalization. For internalization, maternal hostility adopted the mediator role.

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Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-

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5.10

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology focuses on two key concepts: human development, which refers to the psychological transformations and modifications that occur during the life cycle and influence an individual behavior within the social milieu; and application of knowledge, which is derived from investigating variables in the developmental process. Its contributions cover research that deals with traditional life span markets (age, social roles, biological status, environmental variables) and broadens the scopes of study to include variables that promote understanding of psychological processes and their onset and development within the life span. Most importantly.