Longitudinal Pathways from Parent Internalizing Symptoms to Parent and Youth Emotion Functioning.

ABSTRACT: The current study utilized mediation analyses to examine how parental symptoms of depression and anxiety impact child emotion regulation (ER) and emotion stability (ES) through parent emotion functioning, parenting, and the coparent relationship. 564 parents of children between 3 and 17 years (M_age = 9.47; 54.4% male) were recruited via Amazon's Mechanical Turk across three time points: baseline (Wave 1), 4 months (Wave 2), 8 months (Wave 3). Mediation results demonstrated that symptoms of parent depression at Wave 1 predicted worse coparent relationships and decreases in parents' ability to identify their own emotions at Wave 2. Symptoms of parental anxiety at Wave 1 predicted decreases in positive parenting and an increased tendency to have negative secondary emotional respons

SUBMITTER: Hare MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11692810 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature