Bidirectional effects between maternal mental health and adolescent internalizing problems across six years in Northern Ireland.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emerging evidence indicates the existence of bidirectional relations between mothers' mental health and adolescent adjustment, but few studies have examined these relations in contexts of high environmental adversity, including economic deprivation and political violence. Given other empirical connections between political violence and adolescent adjustment problems, the impact of child adjustment problems on maternal mental health may be exacerbated in contexts of sectarian violence.

Methods

Addressing this gap, latent change score modeling was used to examine interrelations between trajectories of maternal mental health and adolescent internalizing symptoms over time in communities afflicted by political conflict. Over six years, 999 adolescent-mother dyads part

SUBMITTER: Luningham JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9815047 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature