Maternal depression and parental distress among families in the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project: Risk factors within the family setting

Rafferty, Yvonne; Griffin, Kenneth W.; Robokos, Dimitra

doi:10.1002/imhj.20271

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“…Family well-being FWB is increasingly recognised as crucial for supporting child well-being (McKeown, Pratschke, & Haase, 2003;Rafferty, Griffin, & Robokos, 2010). FWB is a broad construct encompassing both individual and family-level variables, but is generally considered to include physical and psychological well-being, strong family relationships, financial security, and family protective factors, with interdependence among these FWB components (Buehler & O'Brien, 2011;Chien & Mistry, 2013;McKeown et al, 2003).…”

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Supportive family contexts: promoting child well-being and resilience

Newland

2014

Early Child Development and Care

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Prevention and intervention programmes for children at risk aim to improve child well-being and resilience. They do so using both direct and indirect strategies, intervening with children but also considering broader contextual factors (such as family dynamics). Children's subjective well-being comprises five main components (physical health, mental health, self-regulation, social competence, and cognitive competence) and is predicted by person, relationship, and contextual factors. Children's resilience, or ability to beat the odds under adverse conditions, is predicted by similar protective factors. Family well-being (FWB) is one of the strongest and most consistent predictors of child well-being and resilience. Aspects of FWB (including adult health and well-being, family selfsufficiency, and family resiliency) have been shown to impact child well-being through positive parent-child interactions. However, risk factors (including poverty and living in geographic locales with limited resources or high levels of neighbourhood violence) can threaten both family and child well-being. Strategies are offered for promoting FWB as a means of supporting resilience and well-being in children at risk for violence, abuse, or neglect.Early intervention and child abuse prevention programmes have sought ways to improve child well-being and resilience directly (working one-on-one with a child) and indirectly (by improving parenting skills, thereby improving child outcomes). Research has shown that family well-being (FWB) provides a foundation on which to build positive parenting skills, and when children are parented in developmentally appropriate and supportive ways, their well-being and resilience are bolstered. There is new interest in exploring connections from FWB to child well-being, especially for vulnerable children who are at-risk for violence, abuse, or neglect. This paper will examine key components of child well-being and resilience, key components of FWB, risk factors for families, and strategies for promoting FWB as a means of supporting resilience and well-being in children at risk.Child well-being and resilience A child's subjective well-being is a critical indicator of environmental impacts on his/ her development from early childhood through adolescence (Children's Worlds, 2011;

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Supportive family contexts: promoting child well-being and resilience

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2014

Early Child Development and Care

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“…Differences in maternal self-esteem (Al-Yagon, 2010), self-efficacy (Holland et al, 2011;Jackson, 2000), intellectual capacity (Bradley, Corwyn, Pipes McAdoo, & García Coll, 2001;McLoyd, 1998), mental health status (Ensminger, Hanson, Riley, & Juon, 2003;Osborne et al, 2012), past experiences of abuse (Wright, 2010), parenting styles (Ekas, Lickenbrock, & Whitman, 2010;Jackson, Brooks-Gunn, Huang, & Glassman, 2000), and gender stereotypes (Kimmel, 2000;Lamke & Filsinger, 1983;Wright, 2007), among others, have been cited as correlates of child outcomes and have then been interpreted as proxies for maternal well-being. Studies utilizing maternal-level indicators to assess maternal well-being have typically employed measures of functioning as well, including income-to-needs ratios (McLanahan & Garfinkel, 1995), mental health status (Mistry, Stevens, Sareen, De Vogli, & Halfon, 2007;Rafferty, Griffin, & Robokos, 2010), employment status (Chatterji, Markowitz, & Brooks-Gunn, 2013;Lennon, Blome, & English, 2001), marital status (Cooper, McLanahan, Meadows, & Brooks-Gunn, 2009), or other objective indicators (Cook, Davis, Smyth, & McKenzie, 2009;Desjardins, Zelenski, & Coplan, 2008;Kossek, Pichler, Meece, & Barratt, 2008). Although these quantitative indicators of maternal functioning have been associated with positive outcomes for children, including improved academic achievement (e.g., Wright, 2010), positive social-emotional development (e.g., Jackson et al, 2000), and increased self-esteem (e.g., McCloyd, 1998;Moore, Murphey, & Bandy, 2012), researchers have rarely explored which indicators low-income women utilize to self-assess their own functioning and quality of life.…”

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‘Making It’ Versus Satisfaction: How Women Raising Young Children in Poverty Assess How Well They Are Doing

Wright

2013

Journal of Social Service Research

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Using in-depth interviews with 17 women raising young children in urban poverty, two separate standards were examined-"making it" and satisfaction. "Making it" referred to one's perceived ability to meet the basic physical needs of her children. In contrast, satisfaction referred to how closely one's current life circumstances align with her personal notions of success. Results indicated that self-expectations greatly influenced which standard individuals prioritized, such that those with higher expectations valued satisfaction while those with lower expectations prioritized "making it." Self-expectations aligned largely with one's poverty status, and women with the fewest economic resources typically expected the least for their lives. Findings from this study suggest that efforts to support women raising young children in poverty must address both standards if they are to be relevant, effective, and sustainable. Similarly, if individuals are to succeed in such interventions, they must be supported in developing higher expectations for their lives, given the role that expectations play in catalyzing one's sense of a life beyond survival. Future research and implications for theory and practice are outlined.

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“…Importantly, family conflict impacts parent–child transactions by altering each individual's levels of positive engagement and negativity (e.g., Rafferty, Griffin, & Robokos, ) as well as their responses to each others’ displays of positivity and negativity. Consistent with the spillover hypothesis, exposure to family conflict may alter how an individual both acts and reacts to a dyadic partner (Margolin et al., ).…”

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Family Conflict Moderates Early Parent–child Behavioral Transactions

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Barnett

Mastergeorge³

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Infant Mental Health Journal

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The reciprocal transactions that shape early parent-child relationships are influenced by contextual stress, such as family conflict. Although family conflict is a salient stressor to the family system, few studies have considered how parent-child transactions vary according to exposure to family conflict. The present study examined how family conflict alters early parent-child behavioral transactions. We utilized three waves of data from a multisite longitudinal study of low-income families (N = 2, 876), child age 14 months, 24 months, and 36 months, to identify behavioral transactions of positive and negative maternal (supportiveness, negative regard) and child (engagement, negativity) behaviors. Results indicated that family conflict at 14 months diminished the positive association between maternal supportiveness and child engagement, and amplified the inverse association between maternal negativity and child engagement. Family conflict at 14 months also was associated with increased stability of child negativity and subsequent increased maternal negative regard at 36 months, in part via increases in 24-month child negativity. In sum, family conflict occurring early in childhood predicted and moderated behavioral transactions between young children and their mothers.

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Maternal depression and parental distress among families in the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project: Risk factors within the family setting

Cited by 24 publications

References 89 publications

Supportive family contexts: promoting child well-being and resilience

Supportive family contexts: promoting child well-being and resilience

‘Making It’ Versus Satisfaction: How Women Raising Young Children in Poverty Assess How Well They Are Doing

Family Conflict Moderates Early Parent–child Behavioral Transactions

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