Longitudinal relations between child emotional difficulties and parent-child closeness: a stability and malleability analysis using the STARTS model.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Past empirical evidence on the longitudinal relations between emotional mental health symptoms and parent-child close relationships has produced mixed and inconclusive results. Some studies suggest a unidirectional relation, whereas other studies point toward a bidirectional association. Additionally, most of the past research has been carried out with adolescent samples, rather than children. Hence, this study aimed to estimate the longitudinal relations between children's trait emotional difficulties and trait parent-child closeness, accounting for the time-invariant and time-varying state components of each factor.

Methods

Participants were 7,507 children (ages 3 years, 5 years, 7 years, and 9 years) from the Growing Up in Ireland cohort. Α bivariate stable tra

SUBMITTER: Katsantonis IG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11251125 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature