Sentences with phrase «maternal psychological functioning»

These findings suggest that interventions for women living with HIV and their children should not only address maternal psychological functioning (depression and coping), but should also focus on parenting, promoting a positive approach.

Studies suggest that having a child with autism has a negative impact on maternal psychological functioning, but no large - scale, population - based studies are available.

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Using neonatal novelty exposure, a neonatal stimulation paradigm that dissociates maternal individual differences from a direct stimulation effect on the offspring, we investigated the effect of early exposures to novelty on a diverse range of psychological functions using several assessment paradigms.

Main outcome measures: Mother — child interaction, maternal psychological health attitudes and behaviour, infant functioning and development, and risk of neglect or abuse.

Ajdukovic and Ajdukovic's (1993) study of the influence of maternal mental health on children's stress reactions and stress indexes emphasised the emotional and behavioural state of mothers as major mediators between children's traumatic experience and psychological functioning.

For both men and women, paternal and maternal positive play time and parenting directly predicted the levels of psychological functioning during this critical life transition.

The socioemotional functioning of children living in poor families seems to be mediated by the psychological functioning of parents and the level of distress in family interaction patterns.23 Maternal rejection of early adolescents is closely correlated to the occupational status of the family.24

While a genetic basis for the findings is possible, altered parenting likely has a significant mediating role.15 For example, a recent meta - analysis found that maternal depression and psychological distress were associated with increased negative and coercive parenting behaviors and disengagement from the child.36 A father may then attenuate the influence of a mother's depression with increased caring behavior directed to the children.37, 38 Alternatively, a healthy father may offer support directly to the affected mother.14 Future work may explicate these mechanisms by examining specific measures of mothers» and fathers» role functioning.

In this way, the meaning of maternal PPD must trace the origin of the women» history and her psychological functioning.

Recently, researchers have shown an increased interest in paternal psychological status because it is strictly related to maternal one and to child development.9 These few studies evidence that also fathers can be affected by this type of mood alterations and that the transition to parenthood represents a stressor and an anxiety experience for 10 % of fathers, 10 revaluating the paternal role in family functioning after childbirth.9 - 11

General indices regarding mental health of mothers have been associated with their children's sleep, and less well - organized sleep patterns have been noted in children from poorly functioning families.113) Mothers of children with sleep disturbances exhibited much higher psychological stress than did controls, obtaining increased scores on all factors of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ).114) Children's sleep quality significantly predicted that of their mothers, with maternal sleep quality associated with stress and fatigue.115) Moreover, infants of mothers with low levels of depression and anxiety were more likely to recover from sleep problems than those with high levels of depression and anxiety after controlling for the influence of attachment patterns.116) Sleep disturbances in early childhood were positively related to negative maternal perceptions of their child, 117) potentially interfering with the development of beneficial parent - child interactions.

This study was designed to determine whether more paternal involvement was associated with more favorable adaptation to pediatric chronic diseases as measured by indices of maternal psychological adjustment, marital satisfaction, and family functioning.

We examined the impact of maternal depression and parenting behaviors on adolescents» psychological functioning in Romania.