Influence of early childhood parental hostility and socioeconomic stress on children’s internalizing symptom trajectories from childhood to adolescence
IntroductionChildren and adolescents with elevated internalizing symptoms are at increased risk for depression, anxiety, and other psychopathology later in life. The present study examined the predictive links between two bioecological factors in early childhood—parental hostility and socioeconomic...
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| author | Lue Williams Veronica Oro Courtney K. Blackwell Chang Liu Elizabeth B. Miller Jody Ganiban Jenae M. Neiderhiser David S. DeGarmo Daniel S. Shaw Tong Chen Misaki N. Natsuaki Leslie D. Leve |
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| description | IntroductionChildren and adolescents with elevated internalizing symptoms are at increased risk for depression, anxiety, and other psychopathology later in life. The present study examined the predictive links between two bioecological factors in early childhood—parental hostility and socioeconomic stress—and children’s internalizing symptom class outcomes, while considering the effects of child sex assigned at birth on internalizing symptom development from childhood to adolescence.Materials and MethodsThe study used a sample of 1,534 children to test the predictive effects of socioeconomic stress at ages 18 and 27 months; hostile parenting measured at child ages 4–5; and sex assigned at birth on children’s internalizing symptom latent class outcomes at child ages 7–9, 10–12, 13–15, and 16–19. Analyses also tested the mediating effect of parenting on the relationship between socioeconomic stress and children’s symptom classes. Other covariates included parent depressive symptoms at child ages 4–5 and child race and ethnicity.ResultsAnalyses identified three distinct heterogenous internalizing symptom classes characterized by relative symptom levels and progression: low (35%); moderate and increasing (41%); and higher and increasing (24%). As anticipated, higher levels of parental hostility in early childhood predicted membership in the higher and increasing symptom class, compared with the low symptom class (odds ratio (OR) = .61, 95% confidence interval (CI) [.48,.77]). Higher levels of early childhood socioeconomic stress were also associated with the likelihood of belonging to the higher-increasing symptom class compared to the low and moderate-increasing classes (OR = .46, 95% CI [.35,.60] and OR = .56, 95% CI [.44,.72], respectively). The total (c = .61) and direct (c’ = .57) effects of socioeconomic stress on children’s symptom class membership in the mediation analysis were significant (p <.001).DiscussionStudy findings suggest that intervening on modifiable bioecological stressors—including parenting behaviors and socioeconomic stressors—may provide important protective influences on children’s internalizing symptom trajectories. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e249c40d11fd4406a9bd0deb62786d882024-04-17T11:59:54ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychiatry1664-06402024-04-011510.3389/fpsyt.2024.13255061325506Influence of early childhood parental hostility and socioeconomic stress on children’s internalizing symptom trajectories from childhood to adolescenceLue Williams0Veronica Oro1Courtney K. Blackwell2Chang Liu3Elizabeth B. Miller4Jody Ganiban5Jenae M. Neiderhiser6David S. DeGarmo7Daniel S. Shaw8Tong Chen9Misaki N. Natsuaki10Leslie D. Leve11Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United StatesPrevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United StatesDepartment of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United StatesDepartment of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United StatesNYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY, United StatesDepartment of Psychological & Brain Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United StatesDepartment of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United StatesPrevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United StatesDepartment of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesDepartment of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United StatesDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United StatesPrevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United StatesIntroductionChildren and adolescents with elevated internalizing symptoms are at increased risk for depression, anxiety, and other psychopathology later in life. The present study examined the predictive links between two bioecological factors in early childhood—parental hostility and socioeconomic stress—and children’s internalizing symptom class outcomes, while considering the effects of child sex assigned at birth on internalizing symptom development from childhood to adolescence.Materials and MethodsThe study used a sample of 1,534 children to test the predictive effects of socioeconomic stress at ages 18 and 27 months; hostile parenting measured at child ages 4–5; and sex assigned at birth on children’s internalizing symptom latent class outcomes at child ages 7–9, 10–12, 13–15, and 16–19. Analyses also tested the mediating effect of parenting on the relationship between socioeconomic stress and children’s symptom classes. Other covariates included parent depressive symptoms at child ages 4–5 and child race and ethnicity.ResultsAnalyses identified three distinct heterogenous internalizing symptom classes characterized by relative symptom levels and progression: low (35%); moderate and increasing (41%); and higher and increasing (24%). As anticipated, higher levels of parental hostility in early childhood predicted membership in the higher and increasing symptom class, compared with the low symptom class (odds ratio (OR) = .61, 95% confidence interval (CI) [.48,.77]). Higher levels of early childhood socioeconomic stress were also associated with the likelihood of belonging to the higher-increasing symptom class compared to the low and moderate-increasing classes (OR = .46, 95% CI [.35,.60] and OR = .56, 95% CI [.44,.72], respectively). The total (c = .61) and direct (c’ = .57) effects of socioeconomic stress on children’s symptom class membership in the mediation analysis were significant (p <.001).DiscussionStudy findings suggest that intervening on modifiable bioecological stressors—including parenting behaviors and socioeconomic stressors—may provide important protective influences on children’s internalizing symptom trajectories.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1325506/fullinternalizing symptomsparental hostilitysocioeconomic stressgrowth mixture modelingchildhoodadolescence |
| spellingShingle | Lue Williams Veronica Oro Courtney K. Blackwell Chang Liu Elizabeth B. Miller Jody Ganiban Jenae M. Neiderhiser David S. DeGarmo Daniel S. Shaw Tong Chen Misaki N. Natsuaki Leslie D. Leve Influence of early childhood parental hostility and socioeconomic stress on children’s internalizing symptom trajectories from childhood to adolescence Frontiers in Psychiatry internalizing symptoms parental hostility socioeconomic stress growth mixture modeling childhood adolescence |
| title | Influence of early childhood parental hostility and socioeconomic stress on children’s internalizing symptom trajectories from childhood to adolescence |
| title_full | Influence of early childhood parental hostility and socioeconomic stress on children’s internalizing symptom trajectories from childhood to adolescence |
| title_fullStr | Influence of early childhood parental hostility and socioeconomic stress on children’s internalizing symptom trajectories from childhood to adolescence |
| title_full_unstemmed | Influence of early childhood parental hostility and socioeconomic stress on children’s internalizing symptom trajectories from childhood to adolescence |
| title_short | Influence of early childhood parental hostility and socioeconomic stress on children’s internalizing symptom trajectories from childhood to adolescence |
| title_sort | influence of early childhood parental hostility and socioeconomic stress on children s internalizing symptom trajectories from childhood to adolescence |
| topic | internalizing symptoms parental hostility socioeconomic stress growth mixture modeling childhood adolescence |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1325506/full |
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