Maternal depressive symptoms and child social preference during the early school years: mediation by maternal warmth and child emotion regulation

Chi-Ming Kam, Mark T Greenberg, Karen L Bierman, John D Coie, Kenneth A Dodge, Michael E Foster, John E Lochman, Robert J McMahon, Ellen E Pinderhughes, Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group, Chi-Ming Kam, Mark T Greenberg, Karen L Bierman, John D Coie, Kenneth A Dodge, Michael E Foster, John E Lochman, Robert J McMahon, Ellen E Pinderhughes, Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group

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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Series of SEM models built and tested in the study
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Joint mediation between maternal depressive symptoms and peer social preference by maternal warmth and child emotion regulation. Path coefficients are standardized and significance levels were determined by critical ratios on unstandardized coefficients

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