TY - JOUR
T1 - Antecedent-consequence conditions in maternal mood and child adjustment
T2 - A four-year cross-lagged study
AU - Elgar, Frank J.
AU - Curtis, Lori J.
AU - McGrath, Patrick J.
AU - Waschbusch, Daniel A.
AU - Stewart, Sherry H.
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by doctoral fellowships from the Hospital for Sick Children Foundation and Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation awarded to Frank J. Elgar and a Distinguished Scientist Award of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research awarded to Patrick J. McGrath.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Examined the mutual influence on maternal depressive symptoms and child adjustment problems and their antecedent-consequence conditions across 3 cycles of panel data collected over a 4-year period in the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY). Results indicated stability in, and relations between, maternal and child outcomes. Cross-lagged panel correlations showed that maternal depressive symptoms tended to precede child aggression and hyperactivity but tended to follow child emotional problems. Temporal relations were interpreted in the context of mechanisms that transmit risk between mothers and children. Logistic regression analysis showed bidirectional risk between maternal mood and child adjustment after earlier symptoms were statistically controlled. These findings indicate that maternal depression increases the risk of adjustment problems in children, and vice versa, underscoring the intergenerational transmission of psychopathology.
AB - Examined the mutual influence on maternal depressive symptoms and child adjustment problems and their antecedent-consequence conditions across 3 cycles of panel data collected over a 4-year period in the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY). Results indicated stability in, and relations between, maternal and child outcomes. Cross-lagged panel correlations showed that maternal depressive symptoms tended to precede child aggression and hyperactivity but tended to follow child emotional problems. Temporal relations were interpreted in the context of mechanisms that transmit risk between mothers and children. Logistic regression analysis showed bidirectional risk between maternal mood and child adjustment after earlier symptoms were statistically controlled. These findings indicate that maternal depression increases the risk of adjustment problems in children, and vice versa, underscoring the intergenerational transmission of psychopathology.
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U2 - 10.1207/S15374424JCCP3203_05
DO - 10.1207/S15374424JCCP3203_05
M3 - Article
C2 - 12881025
AN - SCOPUS:0043231317
SN - 1537-4416
VL - 32
SP - 362
EP - 374
JO - Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
JF - Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
IS - 3
ER -