Evidence was thus advanced for emotional insecurity as an explanatory process in the context of parental depressive symptoms. (link.springer.com)
Higher levels of child behaviour problems were associated with more severe parental depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms and stress and lower levels of mindful parenting. (link.springer.com)
At the same time, the results of time - lagged analyses indicated that both these relationships were moderated by age with excessive reassurance seeking being associated with greater elevations in depressive symptoms following elevations in either hassles or parental depressive symptoms in older but not younger children. (link.springer.com)