Longitudinal associations among maternal depressive symptoms, child emotional caretaking, and anxious/depressed symptoms in pediatric cancer
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= 78) were recruited from two pediatric hospitals soon after their child's (Ages 5-18) new diagnosis or relapse of cancer. Mothers reported on their own depressive symptoms and their child's anxious/depressed symptoms near the time of diagnosis or recurrence (Time 1) and 1 year later (Time 3). At Time 2 (4 months after Time 1), mother-child dyads completed a video-recorded discussion of their experience with cancer that was coded for observed maternal expressed distress (anxiety, sadness) and observed child emotional caretaking. Maternal expressed distress during the interaction was significantly related to more emotional caretaking behaviors by both boys and girls. Results of a moderated mediation model showed that child emotional caretaking at Time 2 significantly mediated the relation between maternal depressive symptoms at Time 1 and child anxious/depressed symptoms at Time 3 for girls but not for boys. The findings suggest that children's emotional caretaking behaviors contribute to subsequent anxious/depressed symptoms for girls, but not for boys, with cancer. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
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Four studies found parentification as a significant mediator connecting family risks with negative outcomes, even though the exact family risk factors ranged from domestic violence to parental alcohol misuse, and the outcome ranged from internalizing problems to aging.
“Four studies found parentification as a significant mediator connecting family risks with negative outcomes [39,48,59,88], even though the exact family risk factors ranged from domestic violence to parental alcohol misuse, and the outcome also ranged from internalizing problems to aging.”
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredAmong studies on internalizing problems (n = 11) and psychological/emotional distress (n = 8), only two differentiated instrumental from emotional parentification, two exclusively focused on emotional parentification, and two focused on role-based parentification.
“Among the studies on internalizing problems (n = 11; measured either by forming a latent variable or summing across anxiety and depressive symptoms) and studies on psychological/emotional distress (n = 8), only two studies differentiated instrumental from emotional parentification [17,51], two studies exclusively focused on emotional parentification [86,88], and two other studies focused on role-”
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Seven studies examined parentification as a mediator for associations between other family environments and health/behavior outcomes.
“Seven studies examined parentification as a mediator for other associations, typically associations between other family environments and health/behavior outcomes [39,48,58,59,60,64,88].”
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- Authors
- Prussien, K. V., Murphy, L. K., Gerhardt, C. A., Vannatta, K., Bemis, H., Desjardins, L., Ferrante, A. C., Shultz, E. L., Keim, M. C., Cole, D. A., & Compas, B. E.
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- Venue
- Journal of Family Psychology
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- 2018-12
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1087-1096
- ISSN
- 0893-3200 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1293
- PMC
- PMC6289594
- OpenAlex
- W2890698157
- Cited by
- 16
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 1
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- 1.10
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Family Psychology (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Cancer Institute (R01CA118332; R01CA118332-07)
- National Institute of Mental Health (T32-MH18921)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Family Support in Illness
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- maternal depressive symptoms, childhood cancer, anxious/depressed symptoms, mother-child interaction, moderated mediation, sex differences, family caregiving
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Adult, Anxiety Disorders, Cancer Care Facilities, Child, Child, Preschool, Depressive Disorder, Emotions, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Mother-Child Relations, Mothers, Neoplasms, Prospective Studies, United States, Parenting
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