Longitudinal Relationships Between Foster Children’s Mental Health Problems and Parental Stress in Foster Mothers and Fathers

IF 1.3 4区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

European Journal of Health Psychology Pub Date : 2018-08-03 DOI:10.1027/2512-8442/a000007

A. Lohaus, Denise Kerkhoff, Sabrina Chodura, Christine Möller, T. Symanzik, J. Rueth, Daniela Ehrenberg, Ann-Katrin Job, Vanessa Reindl, K. Konrad, N. Heinrichs

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Abstract

This paper focuses on the longitudinal relationships between foster children’s mental health problems and parental stress across a 1-year interval with three measurements. A sample of 94 foster children and a comparison group of 157 biological children and their families participated in this study. The age of the children was between 2 and 7 years. At the initial assessment, the foster children had been in their foster families since 2–24 months. Based on Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) scores, the results indicated increased internalizing and externalizing mental health problems in the foster children group. Both mental health scores remained rather stable across the longitudinal assessments in foster as well as in biological children. Internalizing as well as externalizing scores were substantially correlated with parental stress in both samples. Moreover, changes in mental health scores were associated with changes in parental stress. However, cross-lagged panel analyses showed no clear pattern of temporal relationships between children’s mental health scores and parental stress. Implications as well as strengths and limitations of the current study are addressed in the Discussion section.

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寄养儿童心理健康问题与父母压力的纵向关系

本文采用三种测量方法对寄养儿童心理健康问题与父母压力之间的纵向关系进行了研究。本研究以94名寄养儿童和157名亲生儿童及其家庭为对照。这些孩子的年龄在2到7岁之间。在初步评估时，寄养儿童已在寄养家庭生活2-24个月。基于儿童行为量表(Child Behavior Checklist, CBCL)得分，结果显示寄养儿童的内化和外化心理健康问题有所增加。在纵向评估中，寄养儿童和亲生儿童的心理健康得分都相当稳定。在两个样本中，内化和外化得分都与父母压力有实质性的相关。此外，心理健康得分的变化与父母压力的变化有关。然而，交叉滞后面板分析显示，儿童心理健康得分和父母压力之间没有明确的时间关系模式。讨论部分讨论了当前研究的意义以及优势和局限性。

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European Journal of Health Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-

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