Early socioeconomic conditions to children's trait resilience: longitudinal mediation effects of mothers' and fathers' parenting.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Trait resilience is a well-established protective factor against diverse social-emotional challenges and stress-associated psychiatric disorders. Its cultivation may thus be exceptionally critical for children exposed to early financial adversity, which has been demonstrated to confer elevated vulnerabilities to psychosocial maladjustment. Grounded in the Family Stress Model with a focus on an understudied Asian population, this longitudinal study investigates how early family socioeconomic disadvantage indirectly shapes children's trait resilience through key parenting dimensions-warmth, rejection, and autonomy support-by both mothers and fathers.

Methods

This longitudinal study was embedded in a multi-ethnic, pre-birth cohort involving Singaporean families (57.3

SUBMITTER: Yu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12604427 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature