Does Parenting Explain the Link Between Cumulative SES Risk and Child Problems in the Context of Parental Depression?

Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 1275332 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1573-3327 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 0009398X NLM ISO Abbreviation: Child Psychiatry Hum Dev Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: 1999- : New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Original Publication: New York, Behavioral Publications

Depression*/psychology ; Parenting*/psychology; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Humans ; Parent-Child Relations ; Parents/psychology ; Prospective Studies

The accumulation of socioeconomic stressors, such as being a single parent and having a limited income, is associated with childhood maladjustment and prospective poor health. Evidence suggests both positive and negative parenting strategies (e.g., warmth and praise; criticism and neglect) may account for the relationship between socioeconomic adversity and child outcomes. However, despite the common co-occurrence of parental depression and socioeconomic stress, models of cumulative socioeconomic risk and parenting have yet to be tested in parents who are also coping with depression. In a sample of children whose parents have a history of depression, this study extends findings from a previous report (i.e., Sullivan et al. in J Fam Psychol 33:883-893, 2019) to test whether behavioral observations of parenting account for the association between a cumulative risk index of socioeconomic stress and child psychological problems in the same sample of 179 children (M age = 11.46 years, SD age = 2.00) of parents with depression. Both positive and negative parenting accounted for the relationship between socioeconomic risk and both child- and parent-reported externalizing problems, whereas no evidence emerged for parenting accounting for the relation between cumulative risk and internalizing problems. This study highlights the central role socioeconomic stress plays in child maladjustment among parents coping with depression, as well as how parenting may be a critical mechanism linking socioeconomic stress and child externalizing problems.
(© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC part of Springer Nature.)

J Fam Psychol. 2019 Dec;33(8):883-893. (PMID: 31414864)
Curr Dir Psychol Sci. 2020 Apr 1;29(2):174-179. (PMID: 33758474)
Psychol Sci. 2007 Nov;18(11):953-7. (PMID: 17958708)
J Consult Clin Psychol. 2010 Oct;78(5):623-34. (PMID: 20873898)
Curr Opin Psychiatry. 2007 Jul;20(4):359-64. (PMID: 17551351)
J Fam Psychol. 2014 Dec;28(6):967-72. (PMID: 25485673)
BMC Pediatr. 2018 Feb 23;18(1):83. (PMID: 29475430)
J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2011 Nov;20(11):1609-17. (PMID: 21877915)
Clin Psychol Rev. 2014 Dec;34(8):608-19. (PMID: 25455625)
J Child Fam Stud. 2019 Jul;28(7):1878-1885. (PMID: 31656391)
Psychol Bull. 2013 Nov;139(6):1342-96. (PMID: 23566018)
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1997 Jul;36(7):980-8. (PMID: 9204677)
Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev. 2020 Dec;23(4):427-460. (PMID: 32734498)
Am J Epidemiol. 2003 Jan 15;157(2):98-112. (PMID: 12522017)
Pediatrics. 2016 Feb;137(2):e20153239. (PMID: 26817934)
Psychol Bull. 2015 Jul;141(4):858-900. (PMID: 25915035)
J Clin Psychol. 1999 Jan;55(1):117-28. (PMID: 10100838)
Am Psychol. 1998 Feb;53(2):185-204. (PMID: 9491747)
Clin Psychol Rev. 2013 Feb;33(1):133-45. (PMID: 23178234)
J Consult Clin Psychol. 2015 Jun;83(3):541-53. (PMID: 26009786)
J Pers Assess. 1996 Dec;67(3):588-97. (PMID: 8991972)
Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev. 2012 Jun;15(2):144-62. (PMID: 22241071)
J Fam Psychol. 2008 Apr;22(2):264-73. (PMID: 18410213)
J Fam Psychol. 2011 Feb;25(1):137-46. (PMID: 21355653)
J Consult Clin Psychol. 2009 Dec;77(6):1007-20. (PMID: 19968378)
J Pediatr Psychol. 2008 Oct;33(9):1046-61; discussion 1062-4. (PMID: 17905801)
Biol Psychiatry. 2019 May 15;85(10):838-849. (PMID: 30905381)
Psychol Assess. 2018 May;30(5):621-633. (PMID: 28627919)
J Fam Psychol. 2016 Feb;30(1):12-21. (PMID: 26551658)
Psychol Sci. 2013 Jul 1;24(7):1285-93. (PMID: 23722980)
Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev. 2011 Mar;14(1):1-27. (PMID: 21052833)
Dev Psychol. 2002 Mar;38(2):179-93. (PMID: 11881755)
Dev Psychol. 2003 Sep;39(5):924-33. (PMID: 12952404)
Clin Psychol Rev. 2007 Dec;27(8):986-1003. (PMID: 17449154)
Parent Sci Pract. 2016;16(4):237-256. (PMID: 28190978)
J Fam Psychol. 2018 Feb;32(1):92-102. (PMID: 29543487)

R01 MH069940 United States MH NIMH NIH HHS; F31 HD098825 United States HD NICHD NIH HHS; R01 MH069928 United States MH NIMH NIH HHS

Keywords: Child externalizing; Child internalizing; Cumulative SES risk; Parent depression; Parenting

Date Created: 20210207 Date Completed: 20220405 Latest Revision: 20220629

20240104

PMC8346574

10.1007/s10578-021-01130-9

33550457