Fathers' indirect contribution to children's social-emotional development via mothers' psychological parenting environments

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 833-844
Author(s):  
Jihyun Kim ◽  
Jung Min Kim
Keyword(s):  
Parenting Stress ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Emotional Development ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Income Group ◽  
Social Emotional Development ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Parenting Efficacy ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Practical Implications

We sought to determine whether fathers' play participation exerted an indirect effect on young children's social-emotional development by supporting mothers' psychological parenting environments of depression, parenting stress, and parenting efficacy. We also identified differences by family income. Mothers responded to all measures. We sampled 72 low-income and 201 higher income Korean mothers with 3- to 5-year-old children. The results showed that fathers in higher income families indirectly contributed to young children's social-emotional development through their effect on mothers' depression and parenting stress, and fathers in low-income families indirectly contributed through their effect on mothers' depression, parenting stress, and parenting efficacy. Practical implications for improving young children's social-emotional development in each family income group are discussed.

scholarly journals Geography of intergenerational mobility and child development

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (35) ◽  
pp. 9320-9325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Donnelly ◽  
Irwin Garfinkel ◽  
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn ◽  
Brandon G. Wagner ◽  
Sarah James ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Intergenerational Mobility ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Cognitive Test ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Social Emotional Development ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Working Paper ◽  
Low Income Families

Recent research by Chetty and colleagues finds that children’s chances of upward mobility are affected by the communities in which they grow up [Chetty R, Hendren N (2016) Working paper 23002]. However, the developmental pathways through which communities of origin translate into future economic gain are not well understood. In this paper we examine the association between Chetty and Hendren’s county-level measure of intergenerational mobility and children’s cognitive and behavioral development. Focusing on children from low-income families, we find that growing up in a county with high upward mobility is associated with fewer externalizing behavioral problems by age 3 years and with substantial gains in cognitive test scores between ages 3 and 9 years. Growing up in a county with 1 SD better intergenerational mobility accounts for ∼20% of the gap in developmental outcomes between children from low- and high-income families. Collectively, our findings suggest that the developmental processes through which residential contexts promote upward mobility begin early in childhood and involve the enrichment of both cognitive and social-emotional development.

scholarly journals Depressive Symptomatology and Parenting Stress: Influence on the Social-Emotional Development of Pre-Schoolers in Chile

Children ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 387
Author(s):  
María Pía Santelices ◽  
Francisca Tagle ◽  
Nina Immel
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Parenting Stress ◽  
Parental Stress ◽  
Emotional Development ◽  
Depressive Symptomatology ◽  
Maternal Mental Health ◽  
Social Emotional Development ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
The Social

(1) Background: The preschool stage is a period of great psychological changes that requires the support of parents and significant adults for optimal development. Studies show that maternal mental health can be a risk factor in parenting, affecting the social-emotional development of children. (2) Methods: The present study seeks to shed light on the relation between depressive symptoms, parental stress in mothers and social-emotional development of their preschool children, using a total of 123 mother-child dyads with low Social-economic Status (SES). In mothers, depressive symptomatology and level of parental stress were evaluated, as well as social-emotional development in children. A possible mediation effect between maternal depressive symptoms and parenting stress is expected. (3) Results: The results indicate that higher levels of depressive symptoms and parenting stress in mothers relate to greater difficulties in social-emotional development of their preschool children. (4) Conclusions: These results are clinically relevant from the perspective of family therapy: Parents need support to decrease their levels of parenting stress in order not to jeopardise their children’s social-emotional development.

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