Does Childcare Attendance Moderate the Associations Between Mother-Child Depressive Symptoms and Children's Peer Victimization Experiences?
Peer victimization experiences is suggested to play a mediating role in the transmission of depression symptoms between mothers and children. Childcare attendance has been found to reduce the association between mother and child depressive symptoms. However, it is not clear whether this protective e...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 33; no. 9; pp. 2978 - 2992 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=180214915&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 180214915 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10621024 JFM jtl: Journal of Child & Family Studies issn: 10621024 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2024 vid: 33 iid: 9 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 180214915 10.1007/s10826-024-02885-0 ppf: 2978 ppct: 14 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 814KB tig: atl: Does Childcare Attendance Moderate the Associations Between Mother-Child Depressive Symptoms and Children's Peer Victimization Experiences? aug: au: Larose, Marie-Pier Barker, Edward D. Ouellet-Morin, Isabelle Salmivalli, Christina Côté, Sylvana M. affil: https://ror.org/05vghhr25 INVEST Flagship Research Center, Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland https://ror.org/0220mzb33 Department of Psychology, King's College London, London, UK https://ror.org/0161xgx34 School of Criminology, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada https://ror.org/05ww3wq27 Research Centre of the Montreal Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada https://ror.org/0161xgx34 Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, University of Monteal, Montreal, QC, Canada su: Mental depression risk factors Victims Self-evaluation Affinity groups Psychology of mothers Bullying Child care Mother-child relationship Children Risk assessment Research funding Structural equation modeling Longitudinal method sug: subj: Mental depression risk factors Victims Self-evaluation Affinity groups Psychology of mothers Bullying Child care Mother-child relationship Children Risk assessment Research funding Structural equation modeling Longitudinal method keyword: ALSPAC Child depression Childcare Maternal depression Peer victimization ALSPAC Child depression Childcare Maternal depression Peer victimization ab: Peer victimization experiences is suggested to play a mediating role in the transmission of depression symptoms between mothers and children. Childcare attendance has been found to reduce the association between mother and child depressive symptoms. However, it is not clear whether this protective effect unfolds via a reduction of peer victimization experiences in middle childhood. The aims of this study were to test (1) whether peer victimization in middle childhood mediated the association between exposure to maternal depressive symptomatology in early childhood and child depressive symptoms in late childhood, (2) whether childcare attendance moderate the direct associations between maternal depressive symptoms and children's peer victimization experiences in middle childhood as well as depressive symptoms in late childhood and (3) whether childcare attendance moderates this mediated association. Data come from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Children and Parents (N = 5526) where exposure to maternal depressive symptoms and intensity of childcare attendance were assessed repeatedly during early childhood. Children's peer victimization and depressive symptoms were self-reported at eight and 10 years of age, respectively. We used weighted structural equation modeling and found that the association between mothers and children's depression was partially mediated by peer victimization. Childcare attendance did not moderate the indirect effect of maternal depression on child depressive symptoms via peer victimization. However, we found that for children who attended childcare, maternal depression was no longer associated child depressive symptoms in late childhood. In conclusion, peer victimization experiences partly explain the intergenerational transmission of depressive symptoms, but this mechanism is not altered by children's childcare attendance. Future research should examine potential socio-emotional and school readiness mechanisms that may break the cycle of depressive symptomatology from mothers to children. Highlights: Children's peer victimization experiences partially explained the association mothers' and children's depressive symptoms. Part-time childcare attendance decreased the association between mothers' and children's depressive symptoms. We did not find that childcare attendance moderated the association between mother's depressive symptoms and children's peer victimization experiences. The protective role of childcare attendance did not unfold via a reduction of peer victimization experiences, other intermediary psychosocial factors need to be explored. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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