Parsing Alcohol-Dependent Mothers' Insensitivity to Child Distress: Longitudinal Links with Children's Affective and Anxiety Problems

Autor/inn/en	Jacques, Debrielle T.; Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Davies, Patrick T.; Cicchetti, Dante
Titel	Parsing Alcohol-Dependent Mothers' Insensitivity to Child Distress: Longitudinal Links with Children's Affective and Anxiety Problems
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 57 (2021) 6, S.900-912 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Jacques, Debrielle T.) ORCID (Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.) ORCID (Davies, Patrick T.) ORCID (Cicchetti, Dante)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0001190
Schlagwörter	Alcohol Abuse; Addictive Behavior; Mothers; Parent Child Relationship; Parent Influence; Predictor Variables; Child Health; Mental Disorders; Anxiety; Affective Behavior; Emotional Response; African Americans; Hispanic Americans; Preschool Children; Stress Variables; Depression (Psychology); Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Parenting Styles; At Risk Persons + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Prädiktor; Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit; Angst; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Emotionales Verhalten; Afroamerikaner; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Risikogruppe
Abstract	Prior work suggests that substance-dependent mothers insensitively respond to their child's emotional needs, which can increase children's risk for psychopathology. However, the mechanisms and processes underlying these associations remain unclarified. Mothers' insensitivity to children's distress is an especially unique predictor of child maladjustment, yet no study has examined whether or how different types of insensitivity to child distress uniquely affect the development of internalizing problems in children of alcohol-dependent mothers. To bridge these gaps, this study examined longitudinal mediational pathways between maternal alcohol dependence symptoms, 2 types of maternal insensitivity to child distress (disengagement and intrusiveness), and 2 types of child internalizing symptoms (affective and anxiety problems) in a majority Black and Latinx sample of young children (M[subscript age] = 2.14 years) and their mothers. Results revealed that maternal disengagement mediated associations between maternal alcohol dependence symptoms and child internalizing problems such that alcohol dependence predicted increased disengagement to children's distress, which subsequently predicted increases in children's affective problems. Maternal alcohol dependence symptoms were not associated with intrusiveness to child distress; however, increased intrusiveness predicted later increases in child anxiety problems. Findings support a differentiated approach to studying maternal insensitivity to child distress, specifically indicating that mothers with alcohol dependence symptoms may be more or less likely to display certain types of insensitivity to child distress which may differentially influence children's risk for internalizing problems. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01