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Parental Mental Health Issues and Child Mental Well-being: the Moderating Role of Emotional and Community Support for Parents

Authors
Jinke Sun1, *
1Teachers College, Columbia University, 525 W 120th St, New York, NY, 10027, USA
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Jinke Sun
Available Online 30 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_136How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Parental mental health; Child mental health; Community Support; Emotional Support
Abstract

Existing research has shown that parental mental health issues increase the risk for children’s mental well-being [1][2]. However, little research has focused on supporting caregivers’ mental well-being and sequentially reducing risk for youth. Large-scale data analysis was conducted on the subsample (N=34,579) of parent-child dyads from the 2020 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) to examine if emotional and community support for parents moderate the relationship between parental mental health and children’s psychological outcomes. Findings confirmed that parental mental health distress predicted children’s mental health problems. The number of emotional support sources parents have positively associated with children’s presence of mental health issues, but no moderating effect was found. Furthermore, when parents were confident about where to get community help, the parent’s mental health distress had a weaker association with children’s presence of anxiety, depression, and behavioral problems. When parents reported more distress, parent’s confidence in finding community help had even more buffering effects on children’s mental health. Such buffering effects on children’s mental health call for more community resources and support for caregivers who were suffering from mental health issues.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
30 December 2022
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10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_136
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2352-5398
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© 2022 The Author(s)
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