"Psychopathology symptoms" refers to the signs or indications that someone may be experiencing abnormal thoughts, emotions, or behaviors, which can be signs of a mental disorder or psychological problem. Full definition
Generally, studies that found a negative effect of one parent's psychological difficulties on the other parent's childrearing behaviors focused on parental psychopathology symptoms in a community - based sample, whereas studies finding evidence for compensatory mechanisms often focused on small groups of families in which one of the parents was diagnosed with depression. (link.springer.com)
Consistent with our expectations, parental psychopathology symptoms in part predict child social - emotional development via parental emotion socialization. (link.springer.com)
Results are discussed in the context of developmental psychobiology and implications for the codevelopment of psychopathology symptoms in childhood. (cambridge.org)