The Long-Term Impact of Parental Mental Health on Children's Distress Trajectories in Adulthood.

ABSTRACT: Using six waves of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (2007-2017) and the Childhood Retrospective Circumstances Study (2014) (n=3,240), this paper estimates how childhood experiences with parental mental health problems shape trajectories of children's own distress in adulthood. Findings indicate that those who experience poor parental mental health have consistently greater distress than their non-exposed counterparts throughout adulthood. More severe and longer exposures to parental mental health problems corresponds to even greater distress in adulthood. The gender of the parent afflicted does not predict differences in adult mental health, but those individuals exposed to both maternal and paternal poor mental health have the greatest distress in adulthood. Together, results

SUBMITTER: Kamis C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8172076 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature