Maternal Depressive Symptoms when Caring for a Child with Mental Health Problems

Autor/inn/en	Gerkensmeyer, Janis E.; Perkins, Susan M.; Day, Jennifer; Austin, Joan K.; Scott, Eric L.; Wu, Jingwei
Titel	Maternal Depressive Symptoms when Caring for a Child with Mental Health Problems
Quelle	In: Journal of Child and Family Studies, 20 (2011) 5, S.685-695 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1062-1024
DOI	10.1007/s10826-011-9445-4
Schlagwörter	Parent Child Relationship; Mothers; Quality of Life; Caregivers; Mental Health; Depression (Psychology); Mental Disorders; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); At Risk Persons; Stress Variables; Correlation; Incidence; Scores; Regression (Statistics); Children + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Mother; Mutter; Lebensqualität; Caregiver; Carer; Betreuungsperson; Pfleger; Psychohygiene; Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Risikogruppe; Korrelation; Vorkommen; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Child; Kind; Kinder
Abstract	As primary caregivers of children with mental health problems, mothers face challenges that put them at risk for depression, which is rarely identified or addressed. The aims of this paper were to (a) identify mean differences among demographic, stressor, threat, and resource variables specified in a theoretical model and thought to be associated with maternal depressive symptoms and (b) determine how much variability in depressive symptoms is explained by these variables. High levels and prevalence of depressive symptoms were found within a quality of life study that these data were drawn from. Of 139 mothers participating in this study, 58% had a score of 16 or greater on the CES-D indicating moderate to high levels of depressive symptoms. Significant differences were found between mothers with higher versus lower levels of depressive symptoms for 11 of the 18 variables. Hierarchical regression was used to examine the variance explained in depressive symptoms based upon the conceptual model with 4 composite variables. Income (step 1), behavioral problems (step 2), threat appraisal (step 3), and resource appraisal (step 4) combined explained 42% of the variance. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10