@article{ref1,
title="The role of parenting stress in young children's mental health functioning after exposure to family violence",
journal="Journal of Traumatic Stress",
year="2013",
author="Roberts, Yvonne Humenay and Campbell, Christina A. and Ferguson, Monette and Crusto, Cindy A.",
volume="26",
number="5",
pages="605-612",
abstract="This study evaluates the associations of young children's exposure to family violence events, parenting stress, and children's mental health functioning. Caregivers provided data for 188 children ages 3 to 5 years attending Head Start programming. Caregivers reported 75% of children had experienced at least 1 type of trauma event, and 27% of children had experienced a family violence event. Child mental health functioning was significantly associated with family violence exposure after controlling for children's age, gender, household income, and other trauma exposure (β = .14, p = .033). Stress in the parenting role partially mediated the relationship between family violence exposure and young children's mental health functioning (β = .12, p = .015, 95% confidence interval [0.02, 0.21]). Interventions for young children exposed to family violence should address the needs of the child, as well as the caregiver while also building healthy parent-child relationships to facilitate positive outcomes in children faced with trauma.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0894-9867",
doi="10.1002/jts.21842",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jts.21842"
}