Longitudinal Impact of Parents' Discrimination Experiences on Children's Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms: A 2-Year Study of Families of Autistic Children

Autor/inn/en	Chan, Kevin Ka Shing; Leung, Donald Chi Kin; Fung, Winnie Tsz Wa
Titel	Longitudinal Impact of Parents' Discrimination Experiences on Children's Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms: A 2-Year Study of Families of Autistic Children
Quelle	In: Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 27 (2023) 2, S.296-308 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Chan, Kevin Ka Shing)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1362-3613
DOI	10.1177/13623613221093110
Schlagwörter	Autism Spectrum Disorders; Parents; Disability Discrimination; Depression (Psychology); Parent Attitudes; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Parenting Styles; Children; Foreign Countries; Child Rearing; Conflict; Intervention; Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autism; Autismus; Eltern; Elternverhalten; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Child; Kind; Kinder; Ausland; Kindererziehung; Konflikt; Hongkong
Abstract	The present study examined the longitudinal associations of parents' discrimination experiences with children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms among families of autistic children and tested whether these associations would be mediated by parental depression, harsh parenting, and coparenting conflict. On three occasions across 2 years (i.e. T1, T2, and T3), 441 parents of autistic children from Hong Kong, China, provided questionnaire data. Path analyses showed that parents' discrimination experiences at T1 had significant direct effects on parental depression, harsh parenting, and coparenting conflict at T2, which, in turn, had significant direct effects on children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms at T3. Bootstrap analyses further demonstrated that parents' discrimination experiences at T1 had significant indirect effects on children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms at T3 via parental depression, harsh parenting, and coparenting conflict at T2. Theoretically, our findings elucidate how parents' discrimination experiences may longitudinally heighten children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms by adversely affecting parental well-being and parent-child and inter-parental relationships. Practically, our findings highlight the importance of designing and implementing community-based stigma reduction programs and family-based stigma coping interventions to reduce parents' discrimination experiences and associated adverse outcomes on well-being, parenting, marriage, and child development. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01