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Maternal Education and Children’s School Achievement: The Roles of Values, Parenting, and Behavior Regulation
The purpose of this study was to examine psychological factors that may contribute to explain the link between maternal education and children’s...
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Child Social Support Moderates the Association Between Maternal Psychopathology and Child School Engagement
BackgroundSchool engagement is a positive, malleable aspect of youth functioning that may be influenced by familial factors. Both risk and protective...
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Increases in Maternal Education and Child Behavioral and Academic Outcomes
Consistently, research has shown that higher levels of maternal education are linked to positive child outcomes; however, few studies have examined...
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Maternal Childhood Maltreatment and Adolescent Internalizing Problems: The Mediating Role of Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Offspring Childhood Maltreatment
Research has demonstrated the predictive effect of maternal childhood maltreatment on adolescent internalizing problems. However, few studies have...
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Maternal Attachment and Maternal Behavior: The Role of Maternal Affect
Previous research has demonstrated the importance of maternal attachment style to children’s well-being, but the mediators of this relationship are...
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Maternal Touch as a Channel of Communication at Age Four Months: Variations by Infant Gender and Maternal Depression
Tactile contact is one of the earliest nonverbal channels through which parents shape the ways their sons and daughters feel in their own bodies and...
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Children’s Play and Leisure Engagements: The Effect of Maternal Traumatic Events
Maternal practices and their exposure to traumatic events might impede children’s psychological adjustment; however, family relations, play, and...
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Maternal Early Life Adversity and Infant Stress Regulation: Intergenerational Associations and Mediation by Maternal Prenatal Mental Health
Early life adversity is a potent risk factor for poor mental health outcomes across the lifespan, including offspring vulnerability to...
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Maternal Mindfulness During Pregnancy and Early Child Social-Emotional Development and Behavior Problems: The Potential Mediating Role of Maternal Mental Health
ObjectivesDuring the perinatal period, women are exposed to major changes, holding possible adverse effects on psychological well-being and child...
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Maternal Prenatal Distress, Maternal Pre- and Postnatal Bonding and Behavioral and Emotional Problems in Toddlers. A Secondary Analysis of the IRIS Study
Maternal prenatal distress (i.e., anxiety and depressive symptoms) increases the risk for childhood behavioral and emotional problems. So far, the...
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Childhood Trajectories of Paternal and Maternal Psychological Distress and Decision-making in Early Adolescence
Decision-making is important for adolescent wellbeing, and predictive of several other outcomes. While past research demonstrates the role of...
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The contribution of childhood experiences, maternal disintegrative responses, and self-compassion to maternal self-efficacy and role satisfaction: a prospective study
A mother's environmental and personal resources may contribute to, or be reflected in, her perceptions of maternal self-efficacy and role...
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Maternal Subjective Wellbeing and the Cognitive and Socioemotional Outcomes of 3- to 4-Year-Old Children in Nigeria
Evidence linking maternal subjective wellbeing (SWB) to early childhood development (ECD) is scarce. Subjective wellbeing measures an individual’s...
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Preschool Behavioral Problems: Links with Maternal Oxytocin and Caregiving Sensitivity in the Postnatal Period, and Concurrent Maternal Psychopathology and Attachment State-of-Mind
This study investigated maternal oxytocin, caregiving sensitivity and mother-to-infant bonding at 3-months postpartum as predictors of child behavior...
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Towards Preventative Psychiatry: Concurrent and Longitudinal Predictors of Postnatal Maternal-Infant Bonding
Maternal-infant bonding is important for children’s positive development. Poor maternal-infant bonding is a risk factor for negative mother and...
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Fluctuations in Maternal Depressive Symptoms, Anxiety, and Anger and Children’s Depression Risks in Middle Childhood
Research suggests a robust link between the severity of maternal depression and children’s depression risks in middle childhood. Variations among...
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Maternal Employment Shapes Daughters’ Employment Stability in Egypt: Evidence for the Intergenerational Transmission of Labor Force Attachment
Research has documented how maternal employment influences daughters’ participation in paid employment. However, we know far less about how maternal...
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Maternal psychological control and preschoolers’ aggression: The joint moderating roles of temperamental reactivity and gender
This study aimed to clarify the association between maternal psychological control and preschoolers’ aggression via examining the moderating roles of...
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Brief report: Benevolent childhood experiences, parental toxic stress, and maternal emotional reaction to infant crying
Infant crying elicits varied parental responses. While maternal stress has been associated with increased frustration in response to crying, early...
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The Development of Maternal Psychological Control in Early Adolescence: Maternal, Youth, and Neighborhood Antecedents
Despite abundant research documenting negative associations between parental psychological control and youth adjustment, little is known about...
