Fact: In a LaTrobe University therapeutic mediation study, McIntosh and Long found that the factors that most
predicted children's poor
emotional well - being one year after initial measurements were father's lower education, high conflict, shared care, and [a component of shared care] mother's low
emotional availability during the year.
We therefore tested whether children's temperament (effortful control and negative affect), social skills, child psychopathology, environmental stressors (life events), parental accuracy of
predicting their child's emotion understanding (parental accuracy), parental
emotional availability, and parental depression
predict changes in depressive symptoms from preschool to first grade.