%0 Journal Article
%T The role of parenting stress in young children's mental health functioning after exposure to family violence
%J Journal of Traumatic Stress
%D 2013
%A Roberts, Yvonne Humenay
%A Campbell, Christina A.
%A Ferguson, Monette
%A Crusto, Cindy A.
%V 26
%N 5
%P 605-612
%X 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>
%G en
%I John Wiley and Sons
%@ 0894-9867
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jts.21842