Stressors, Quality of the Child-Caregiver Relationship, and Children's Mental Health Problems After Parental Death: The Mediating Role of Self-System Beliefs

Autor/inn/en	Wolchik, Sharlene A.; Tein, Jenn-Yun; Sandler, Irwin N.; Ayers, Tim S.
Titel	Stressors, Quality of the Child-Caregiver Relationship, and Children's Mental Health Problems After Parental Death: The Mediating Role of Self-System Beliefs
Quelle	In: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 34 (2006) 2, S.212-229 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0091-0627
DOI	10.1007/s10802-005-9016-5
Schlagwörter	Caregiver Child Relationship; Children; Mental Health; Beliefs; Fear; Coping; Self Esteem; Case Studies; Grief; Emotional Problems; Stress Variables; Psychological Patterns; Death; Emotional Response; Longitudinal Studies; At Risk Persons + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Psychohygiene; Belief; Glaube; Furcht; Bewältigung; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Trauer; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Emotionales Verhalten; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Risikogruppe
Abstract	Investigated whether three self-system beliefs, fear of abandonment, coping efficacy, and self-esteem, mediated the relations of stressors and caregiver-child relationship quality with concurrent and prospective internalizing and externalizing problems in a sample of children who had experienced parental death in the previous 2.5 years. The cross-sectional sample consisted of 340 children ages 7-16 and their surviving parent/current caregiver; the longitudinal analyses employed a subset of this sample that consisted of 100 children and their parents/caregivers who were assessed at three time points. A multirater, multimethod measure of caregiver-child relationship quality and a multirater measure of children's mental health problems were used. The cross-sectional model supported a mediational relation for fear of abandonment, coping efficacy, and self-esteem. The three-wave longitudinal model showed that fear of abandonment at Time 2 mediated the relation between stressors at Time 1 and internalizing and externalizing problems at Time 3. Implications of these findings for understanding the development of mental health problems in parentally bereaved children and designing interventions for this at-risk group are discussed. (Author).
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