Maternal Distress Explains the Relationship of Young African American Mothers' Violence Exposure with Their Preschoolers' Behavior

Autor/inn/en	Mitchell, Stephanie J.; Lewin, Amy; Rasmussen, Andrew; Horn, Ivor B.; Joseph, Jill G.
Titel	Maternal Distress Explains the Relationship of Young African American Mothers' Violence Exposure with Their Preschoolers' Behavior
Quelle	In: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 26 (2011) 3, S.580-603 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0886-2605
DOI	10.1177/0886260510363423
Schlagwörter	Behavior Problems; Mothers; Child Rearing; Minority Group Children; Child Behavior; Path Analysis; Family Environment; Depression (Psychology); Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Aggression; Emotional Disturbances; African Americans; Violence; Preschool Children; Parent Child Relationship; Early Parenthood; Correlation; Prevention; Identification; Parenting Styles; District of Columbia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Kindererziehung; Pfadanalyse; Familienmilieu; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Gefühlsstörung; Afroamerikaner; Gewalt; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Korrelation; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Identifikation; Identifizierung
Abstract	Adolescent mothers and their children are particularly susceptible to witnessing or directly experiencing violence. Such violence exposure predicts maternal distress, parenting, and child behavior problems. The current study examined how mothers' depressive symptoms, aggression, harsh disciplinary practices, and home environment independently explain the association between mothers' violence exposure and children's externalizing and internalizing behavior, controlling for their children's violence exposure. Data were collected from 230 African American mothers living in Washington, DC who gave birth as adolescents and whose children were 3 to 5 years old. Path analysis revealed that the effect of mothers' experienced violence on children's externalizing and internalizing behavior was mediated by mothers' depressive symptoms and aggression. However, neither harsh discipline nor stimulation in the home environment acted as significant mediators, and there were no direct or indirect effects of mothers' witnessed violence on child behavior. This study builds on previous work by identifying an association between maternal violence exposure and children's behavior, independent of children's own violence exposure that is explained by mothers' increased distress but not their parenting. These findings suggest that a potential means of preventing behavior problems in minority children born to adolescent mothers is to identify mothers who have been directly exposed to violence and treat their depressive symptoms and aggressive behaviors. (Contains 2 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10