Santelices María Pía, Tagle Francisca, Immel Nina
Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 7820436, Chile.
Children (Basel). 2021 May 13;8(5):387. doi: 10.3390/children8050387.
(1) Background: The preschool stage is a period of great psychological changes that requires the support of parents and significant adults for optimal development. Studies show that maternal mental health can be a risk factor in parenting, affecting the social-emotional development of children. (2) Methods: The present study seeks to shed light on the relation between depressive symptoms, parental stress in mothers and social-emotional development of their preschool children, using a total of 123 mother-child dyads with low Social-economic Status (SES). In mothers, depressive symptomatology and level of parental stress were evaluated, as well as social-emotional development in children. A possible mediation effect between maternal depressive symptoms and parenting stress is expected. (3) Results: The results indicate that higher levels of depressive symptoms and parenting stress in mothers relate to greater difficulties in social-emotional development of their preschool children. (4) Conclusions: These results are clinically relevant from the perspective of family therapy: Parents need support to decrease their levels of parenting stress in order not to jeopardise their children's social-emotional development.
(1) 背景：学前阶段是心理发生巨大变化的时期，需要父母和重要成年人的支持以实现最佳发展。研究表明，母亲的心理健康可能是育儿中的一个风险因素，会影响儿童的社会情感发展。(2) 方法：本研究旨在通过总共123对社会经济地位低下的母婴来阐明母亲的抑郁症状、育儿压力与其学龄前儿童社会情感发展之间的关系。对母亲的抑郁症状、育儿压力水平以及儿童的社会情感发展进行了评估。预计母亲的抑郁症状与育儿压力之间存在中介效应。(3) 结果：结果表明，母亲较高水平的抑郁症状和育儿压力与学龄前儿童社会情感发展方面的更大困难相关。(4) 结论：从家庭治疗的角度来看，这些结果具有临床相关性：父母需要获得支持以降低育儿压力水平，以免危及孩子的社会情感发展。
