TY - JOUR
T1 - Maternal Health Status and Parenting Stress in Low-Income, Ethnic-Minority Mothers of Children with Conduct Disorder Problems
T2 - the Role of Daily Parenting Hassles
AU - BeLue, Rhonda
AU - Halgunseth, Linda C.
AU - Abiero, Beatrice
AU - Bediako, Phylicia
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Pennsylvania Department of Health and Award Number T32 DA017629 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does necessarily represent the official views of the Pennsylvania Department of Health or the National Institute on Drug Abuse or the National Institutes of Health. This work was also supported by NSF IGERT Big Data Social Science Award (#DGE-1144860) and the Population Research Institute at Penn State University, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development infrastructure grant (#R24-HD041025).
PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - OBJECTIVES: Minimal attention has been given to understanding parenting stress among low-income, ethnically diverse mothers of children with conduct problems. Maternal health and parenting hassles may serve as important risk factors for parenting stress. This study examined whether parenting hassles mediated the relations between maternal physical and mental health and parenting stress in a sample of low-income, ethnically diverse mothers of children with behavioral problems.METHODS: The sample included 177 low-income black, Latina, and white mothers of kindergartners with behavior problems. Path analysis was employed to assess the associations between maternal mental and physical health and parenting stress, as well as the moderating role of parenting hassles in this cross-sectional study.RESULTS: After adjusting for covariates, we found that parenting hassles mediated the relationship between social support and parenting stress as well as maternal health and parenting stress.CONCLUSION: Findings suggest that promoting coping resources for daily parenting hassles and supporting the physical and mental health of minority mothers may have important implications for parenting children with high behavior problems.
AB - OBJECTIVES: Minimal attention has been given to understanding parenting stress among low-income, ethnically diverse mothers of children with conduct problems. Maternal health and parenting hassles may serve as important risk factors for parenting stress. This study examined whether parenting hassles mediated the relations between maternal physical and mental health and parenting stress in a sample of low-income, ethnically diverse mothers of children with behavioral problems.METHODS: The sample included 177 low-income black, Latina, and white mothers of kindergartners with behavior problems. Path analysis was employed to assess the associations between maternal mental and physical health and parenting stress, as well as the moderating role of parenting hassles in this cross-sectional study.RESULTS: After adjusting for covariates, we found that parenting hassles mediated the relationship between social support and parenting stress as well as maternal health and parenting stress.CONCLUSION: Findings suggest that promoting coping resources for daily parenting hassles and supporting the physical and mental health of minority mothers may have important implications for parenting children with high behavior problems.
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U2 - 10.1007/s40615-015-0098-7
DO - 10.1007/s40615-015-0098-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 26863556
AN - SCOPUS:85020349684
SN - 2197-3792
VL - 2
SP - 501
EP - 509
JO - Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
JF - Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
IS - 4
ER -
