Previous
GUS reports have shown that maternal health problems are a significant factor associated with child outcomes (Barnes et al. 2010).
The scale does not have thresholds defining whether a score suggests the presence of a psychiatric disorder, so we have followed the approach taken in a previous
GUS report (Marryat and Martin, 2010) and defined a relative threshold below which we classify mothers as having «poor» mental health (16 % of mothers were in this category in 2009/10), as opposed to «average or good» mental health.
Not exact matches
The «Accept» recommendation in
GUS will be downgraded to a «Refer» and manual underwrite will apply when all debts on the application are not verified on the credit
report.
This
report uses data from the Growing Up in Scotland study (
GUS) to present a detailed exploration of children's social, emotional and behavioural development during the early years of their lives up to their entry to primary school.
Matt Barnes, Jenny Chanfreau and Wojtek Tomaszewski, National Centre for Social Research Prepared for the Scottish Government: Children, Young People and Social Care Directorate by the Scottish Centre for Social Research ISBN 978 0 7559 8311 7 (Web only publication) This document is also available in pdf format (688k) This
report is one of four
report & accompanied with research findings 1/2010, (
GUS) Health inequalities in the early years, research findings, 2/2010, (
GUS) Maternal mental health & its impact on child behaviour & development, research findings 3/2010, (
GUS) children's social, emotional & behavioural charactoristics at entry to primary school, research findings 4/2010.
Our apparently contradictory
GUS finding may reflect measurement of events over a longer time period, and their impact on children's feelings, rather than on parenting behaviour - especially as our measures of parent - child relationships (unlike those in the UK Millennium Cohort Study) are child -
reported, and involve older children.
This questionnaire is a unique
GUS source of resident fathers» own
reports of involvement in parenting, relationship with the mother and mental health.
The MCS study included mother -
reported Pianta measures of warmth and conflict (similar to
GUS), interviewers» observations of positive and negative parenting, mother
reports of reading with the child, disciplinary practices (frequency of smacking and shouting) and family organisation (regular bedtimes and mealtimes).
Future work will seek to strengthen this finding using teacher -
reported measures of child wellbeing collected at age 10 (but not available for this study), and by examining father - child relationships at age 10 in relation to children's wellbeing measured in future sweeps of
GUS.
This document is also available in pdf format (180k) This research findings is one of four & accompanied with a full
report (
GUS) The circumstances of persistently poor children, (
GUS) Health inequalities in the early years, research findings 2/2010, (
GUS) Maternal mental health & its impact on child behaviour & development, research findings 3/2010, (
GUS) children's social, emotional & behavioural charactoristics at entry to primary school, research findings 4/2010
This document is also available in pdf format (2Mb) This
report is one of four
reports & accompanied with research findings, 3/2010 (
GUS) The circumstances of persistently poor children, research findings 1/2010, (
GUS) Health inequalities in the early years, research findings 2/2010,, (
GUS) children's social, emotional & behavioural charactoristics at entry to primary school, research findings 4/2010.
1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Child poverty targets and persistent poverty 1.2 Aims of this
report 1.3 The Growing Up in Scotland (
GUS) survey
The analysis in this
report uses information from families in the birth cohort that took part in all of the first five sweeps of
GUS.
2 MEASURING HEALTH INEQUALITIES IN
GUS 2.1 Measures used in this
report 2.1.1 Health outcomes and risk factors 2.1.2 Inequality measures
The MCS study had the advantage that associations between parenting and health outcomes were longitudinal in nature, and this temporal relationship adds strength to the likelihood that findings
reported for total difficulties in
GUS could also reflect earlier negative parenting.
Using longitudinal data over four sweeps of the Growing Up in Scotland (
GUS) study, this
report explores the impacts of poor maternal mental health on children's emotional, cognitive and behavioural development and on their relationships with peers at ages three to four.
This document is also available in pdf format (2.3 mb) This
report is one of four
report & accompanied with research findings, 2/2010, (
GUS) The circumstances of persistently poor children, research findings 1/2010, (
GUS) Maternal mental health & its impact on child behaviour & development, research findings 3/2010, (
GUS) children's social, emotional & behavioural charactoristics at entry to primary school, research findings 4/2010.
The percentage estimated as meeting physical activity guidelines (62 %) is similar to the 68 % of all 2 - 4 year olds and 75 % of 5 - 7 year olds
reported meeting the guidlines in the 2008/09 Scottish Health Survey, although there were some differences in the questions used between
GUS and the Scottish Health Survey.