2024/12/11 by Derek D. Morgan, Connað Dael Higgins, Christy R. Rogers · 1 voice
Medicine · Psychology · #COVID-19 and Mental Health #Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development #Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
paper · doi:10.1111/fare.13123
openalex publication_date 2024/12/11 · openalex created_date 2024/12/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14
Objective: The study objective was to examine parental mental health and parenting practices during the pandemic and their association with perceptions of adolescent mental health 2 months later. Background: Pandemic stress led to greater parental and adolescent mental health issues, including ineffective parenting practices. Parent-adolescent relationship quality may protect parental perceptions of adolescent mental health against ineffective parenting, though few have examined this link. Method: = 14.2; 35% girls), longitudinal structural equation models were used to separately explore parental perceptions of adolescent depression and anxiety due to COVID-19 stress on parental psychopathology and parenting practices, and the protective role of parent-adolescent relationship quality. Results: Depression and anxiety models showed transmission from parents to parental perceptions of adolescent's mental health occurred through distinct parenting practices. Parent-adolescent relationship quality ameliorated the effect of inconsistent discipline on later parental perceptions of adolescent depression and anxiety. Conclusions: Parental mental health and parenting practices can act as mechanisms between their chronic stress experiences and their perceptions of their adolescent child's mental health. Implications: Promoting mental health resources and parent-adolescent relationship quality may offset the transmission of negative mental health from parents to their adolescents.