Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA.
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2013;42(1):78-90. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2012.715368. Epub 2012 Sep 10.
Despite the considerable amount of research demonstrating the relationship between parental depressive symptoms and child behavior problems, few studies have examined the direction of the relationship between these variables. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine transactional effects between parental depressive symptoms and child behavior problems. Participants were 209 parent-child dyads drawn from the Oregon Adolescent Depression Project who completed at least 2 of 4 annual questionnaire assessments between the child's age of 4 and 7 years. Structural equation modeling was used to examine the autoregressive paths from one year to the next year within each construct, as well as cross-lagged paths from one year to the next year between constructs. Findings indicated that parental depressive symptoms at each year predicted child behavior problems at the subsequent year and vice versa. No support was found for differential gender effects. These findings highlight the reciprocal relationship between parental depressive symptoms and child behavior problems and suggest intervention programs for young children should assess for and target parental depression when appropriate. Future research should examine these relationships across a broader developmental spectrum and in more diverse, heterogeneous samples.
尽管有大量研究表明父母抑郁症状与儿童行为问题之间存在关系，但很少有研究探讨这些变量之间关系的方向。因此，本研究旨在检验父母抑郁症状与儿童行为问题之间的交互效应。参与者是来自俄勒冈州青少年抑郁项目的 209 对父母-子女对，他们在孩子 4 至 7 岁之间完成了至少 4 次年度问卷调查评估中的 2 次。结构方程模型用于检验每个结构内从一年到下一年的自回归路径，以及从一年到下一年的交叉滞后路径。研究结果表明，每年的父母抑郁症状预测了下一年的儿童行为问题，反之亦然。没有发现性别差异效应的支持。这些发现强调了父母抑郁症状和儿童行为问题之间的相互关系，并表明针对幼儿的干预计划应在适当的时候评估和针对父母的抑郁问题。未来的研究应该在更广泛的发展范围内和更多样化的异质样本中研究这些关系。
