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- Title
Maternal psychological control and child internalizing symptoms: vulnerability and protective factors across bioregulatory and ecological domains.
- Authors
El‐Sheikh, Mona; Hinnant, J. Benjamin; Kelly, Ryan J.; Erath, Stephen
- Abstract
Background: We examined ecological (family socioeconomic status (SES)) and bioregulatory (sleep duration, sleep efficiency) moderators of the link between maternal psychological control and children’s vulnerability to internalizing symptoms. Method: A large socioeconomically diverse sample of third graders ( N = 141) and their mothers participated. Sleep was examined via actigraphy for one week. Psychological control and internalizing symptoms (depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, pre-sleep arousal) were examined through children’s reports. Results: For children with poorer sleep, lower SES, or a combination of the two, maternal psychological control was positively related to depressive symptoms; this association was not evident for children with both better sleep and higher SES. Further, maternal psychological control, sleep efficiency, and SES interacted to predict both anxiety symptoms and pre-sleep arousal. Children were protected from the negative effects of psychological control when they were from higher SES families and had higher sleep efficiency; for all other groups of children, psychological control was associated with anxiety symptoms. A similar but less robust pattern of results was found for pre-sleep arousal. Conclusions: Findings highlight the importance of children’s bioregulatory processes within the socioeconomic context for an enhanced understanding of children’s vulnerability to internalizing problems in the context of maternal psychological control.
- Subjects
PREGNANCY &; psychology; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; MENTAL depression; SOCIAL status; SLEEP; ANXIETY in children; BEHAVIOR disorders in children
- Publication
Journal of Child Psychology, 2010, Vol 51, Issue 2, p188
- ISSN
0021-9630
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1469-7610.2009.02140.x