Author: Kam Chi-Ming Greenberg Mark Bierman Karen Coie John Dodge Kenneth Foster Michael Lochman John McMahon Robert Pinderhughes Ellen
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISSN: 0091-0627
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Vol.39, Iss.3, 2011-04, pp. : 365-377
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Abstract
This longitudinal study examined processes that mediate the association between maternal depressive symptoms and peer social preference during the early school years. Three hundred and fifty six kindergarten children (182 boys) and their mothers participated in the study. During kindergarten, mothers reported their level of depressive symptomatology. In first grade, teachers rated children’s emotion regulation at school and observers rated the affective quality of mother-child interactions. During second grade, children’s social preference was assessed by peer nomination. Results indicated that mothers’ level of depressive symptomatology negatively predicted their child’s social preference 2 years later, controlling for the family SES and teacher-rated social preference during kindergarten. Among European American families, the association between maternal depressive symptoms and social preference was partially mediated by maternal warmth and the child’s emotion regulation. Although the relation between maternal depressive symptoms and children peer preference was stronger among African American families than Europrean American families, its mediation by the maternal warmth and child’s emotion regulation was not found in African American families.
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