Direct, indirect, and buffering effects of support for mothers on children's socioemotional adjustment.

ABSTRACT: Support for mothers may improve children's socioemotional adjustment, yet few studies have considered the benefits of formal support (from health and social work professionals) in addition to social support (from family and friends) or explored the mechanisms. These issues were addressed using a birth cohort (n = 2,649) to explore how mothers' perceptions of social and formal support when children were ages 10-22 months predicted trajectories of children's externalizing and internalizing problems from 58 to 122 months. We tested mediating pathways from support to child adjustment via 3 family stressors measured at 46-58 months (maternal distress, economic strain, and dysfunctional parenting) and examined whether support buffered effects of stressors on child adjustment. Social and f

SUBMITTER: Parkes A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6205417 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature