Stress among fathers of young children with type 1 diabetes
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Although fathers' stress has been shown to have important implications for children's health and well-being, few studies of children with Type 1 diabetes have considered paternal parenting stress. The current study contributes to the literature by exploring correlates of fathers' pediatric parenting stress in a sample of young children with Type 1 diabetes. Forty-three fathers of children 2-6 years old with Type 1 diabetes completed self-report questionnaires examining pediatric parenting stress, child behavior, participation in diabetes management tasks, and parental psychological resources. Results of multiple regression show that fathers' pediatric parenting stress is positively associated with state anxiety and mother-reported difficult child behavior. These findings suggest that fathers may experience parenting stress differently than mothers, and that their experiences may have implications not only for their own level of anxiety, but also for their children's behavior.
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In caregivers for children with Type 1 diabetes, fathers experienced lower levels of parenting stress than mothers, and fathers' stress tended to relate more to their child's anxiety and difficult behavior than disease status.
“In a study of caregivers for children with Type 1 diabetes, fathers experienced lower levels of parenting stress than mothers, and fathers' stress tended to relate more to their child's anxiety and difficult behavior than disease status (Mitchell et al., 2009).”
From Psychosocial Functioning of Parents of Youth Receiving Intensive Interdisciplinary Pain Treatment (2024) · cites this paper as Mitchell et al., 2009
The Discussion reports that fathers’ parenting stress was lower than levels previously reported among mothers, and the Results link fathers’ stress to difficult child behavior but not to child metabolic control or regimen type. The anxiety associated with stress was the fathers’ own state anxiety, not their children’s anxiety; the mother comparison also came from previous studies, not a direct comparison in this sample. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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- Authors
- Mitchell, S. J., Hilliard, M. E., Mednick, L., Henderson, C., Cogen, F. R., & Streisand, R.
- Affiliations
- Children's National (US)
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- Venue
- Families, Systems, & Health
- Published
- 2009-12
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 314-324
- ISSN
- 1091-7527 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-0602
- PMC
- PMC2853761
- OpenAlex
- W2068304457
- Cited by
- 94
- References
- 49
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- FWCI
- 5.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Families Systems & Health (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK080102)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diabetes Management and Education
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Family and Disability Support Research
- Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Keywords
- type 1 diabetes, young children, fathers, state anxiety, child behavior problems, diabetes management
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Child, Child, Preschool, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1, Father-Child Relations, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Surveys and Questionnaires, Stress, Psychological, Parenting, Caregivers
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