Parenting stress mediates between maternal maltreatment history and maternal sensitivity in a community sample

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 433-437

  Pereira, Jessica ^a   Vickers, Kristin ^b   Atkinson, Leslie ^b   Gonzalez, Andrea ^c   Wekerle, Christine ^c   Levitan, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Maltreatment history; Maternal sensitivity; Parenting stress; Statistical mediation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL ABUSE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INDIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PARENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL ABUSE;

CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PARENTING; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84861974551     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: 18737757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2012.01.006     Document Type: Article

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