Parenting Stress Plays a Mediating Role in the Prediction of Early Child Development from Both Parents’ Perinatal Depressive Symptoms

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 149-164

  Fredriksen, Eivor ^a,b   von Soest, Tilmann ^a   Smith, Lars ^a   Moe, Vibeke ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Language development; Parenting stress; Perinatal depressive symptoms; Social emotional development

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DEPRESSION; FATHER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOTHER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTNATAL DEPRESSION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

ADULT; BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTHERS; PARENTING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 85045066698     PISSN: 00910627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-018-0428-4     Document Type: Article

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