Mothers’ Depressive Symptoms and Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors: Examining Reciprocal Trait-State Effects from Age 2 to 15
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Ni Yan
Southwest University
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Ni Yan or Yuan Liu, Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, 2 Tiansheng Str., Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China. Author Yuan Liu also belongs to following institute: Key Laboratory of Cognitive and Personality, Ministry of Education, China. Electronic mail may be sent to [email protected] or [email protected].
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Yuan Liu
Southwest University
Key Laboratory of Cognitive and Personality, Ministry of Education, China
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Ni Yan or Yuan Liu, Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, 2 Tiansheng Str., Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China. Author Yuan Liu also belongs to following institute: Key Laboratory of Cognitive and Personality, Ministry of Education, China. Electronic mail may be sent to [email protected] or [email protected].
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Ni Yan
Southwest University
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Ni Yan or Yuan Liu, Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, 2 Tiansheng Str., Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China. Author Yuan Liu also belongs to following institute: Key Laboratory of Cognitive and Personality, Ministry of Education, China. Electronic mail may be sent to [email protected] or [email protected].
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Yuan Liu
Southwest University
Key Laboratory of Cognitive and Personality, Ministry of Education, China
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Ni Yan or Yuan Liu, Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, 2 Tiansheng Str., Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China. Author Yuan Liu also belongs to following institute: Key Laboratory of Cognitive and Personality, Ministry of Education, China. Electronic mail may be sent to [email protected] or [email protected].
Search for more papers by this authorThe authors acknowledge the support of grants from the Chongqing Social Science Planning Fund: 2019QNJY44, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities-Key Projects (SWU1909323, PI: Ni Yan), Natural National Science Foundation of China (31800950, PI: Yuan Liu). Opinions reflect those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the granting agencies.
Author Yuan Liu also belongs to following institute: Key Laboratory of Cognitive and Personality, Ministry of Education, China.
Abstract
Using a large sample from the National Institute of Child Health and Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 1,178, 51% were male and 80% were White), the random intercept cross-lagged panel model was employed to unpack the trait and state aspects in the relations between mothers’ depressive symptoms and children’s behavioral problems from age 2 to 15. The transactional predictions among mothers’ depressive symptoms and children’s behavioral problems were largely attributed to their correlations at the underlying trait level (rs = .458–.528). At the state level, the mutual influences among mothers’ depressive symptoms and children’s behavior problems occurred more often during periods of transition. With that said, the child effects hypothesis was not supported.
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