Maternal mental health, child care quality, and children's behavior
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Sample
This study uses data collected on participants of the Wisconsin Study of Families and Work (WSFW; Hyde et al., 1995). In the first assessment wave, the WSFW enrolled 570 families from the Madison and Milwaukee areas during women's second trimester of pregnancy through obstetrics clinics, private and university hospital clinics, and a large health maintenance organization. Out of those 560 had live births and were eligible to continue in the study. For the purpose of this paper, we have examined
Results
The child outcome variables were moderately to highly correlated within the same measure (e.g., for PBQ subscales r = .42–.65) and weakly to moderately correlated with each other across the measures (. r = .17–.59; see Table 1). Even though the high correlations indicate some overlap between the PBQ subscales, moderation results are presented for all three subscales because they have been linked differentially to child maladaptive behaviors. For example, scores on the Hostile–Aggressive subscale in
Discussion
This study confirms and extends findings on the relationships between maternal mental health, child mental health and the role that high quality child care can play in buffering the connection between maternal and child mental health. In these analyses appropriate controls were used to avoid confounding family SES and parental child rearing strategies with the child care quality, child outcomes and maternal mental health variables. The study replicates the results from the maternal mental
Author Notes and Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge the support of the National Institute of Mental Health (grant R01-MH044340) and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on “Psychopathology and Development” and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for their generous support for this research.
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