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- Title
母親のメンタルヘルス不調および養育行動と長子の心理社会的適応の 横断的関連 ─肯定的/否定的養育行動を介する Parallel Multiple Mediator Model ─.
- Authors
村山 恭朗
- Abstract
The available empirical data indicate that poor parental mental health leads to negative parenting. The data also show that parenting and parental mental health are associated with children’s psychosocial adjustment. Therefore, parental mental health may be related to the child’s psychosocial adjustment through the mediation of positive and negative parenting. However, few studies have examined mediation models wherein positive and negative parenting were both factored in simultaneously. Additionally, few studies in Japan have examined the association between parental mental health, parenting, and children’s psychosocial adjustment. This study sought to fill that research gap by cross-sectionally examining the association between maternal mental health and the firstborn’s psychosocial adjustment through the mediation of parenting. The study’s participants, comprising mothers (n=3312, 35.58 ±4.86 years of age) with an elder child aged three to six years, completed an online survey that assessed their mental health levels, their frequency of positive and negative parenting toward the elder child, and the levels of psychosocial adjustment (prosocial behaviors and difficulties) exhibited by the child. A mediation analysis showed that maternal mental health was positively associated with the elder child’s prosocial behaviors, mediated by positive but not negative parenting. Furthermore, negative parenting significantly mediated the relationship between poor maternal mental health and the difficulties displayed by the elder child. These findings suggest that interventions designed to improve parental mental health can play an important role in services for supporting childrearing. As this cross-sectional study could not confirm the causality between each variable in the mediation model, further studies are needed to verify its results.
- Publication
Japanese Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2023, Vol 64, Issue 2, p225
- ISSN
0289-0968
- Publication type
Article