TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - The role of parenting stress in young children's mental health functioning after exposure to family violence
JO  - Journal of Traumatic Stress
A1  - Roberts, Yvonne Humenay
A1  - Campbell, Christina A.
A1  - Ferguson, Monette
A1  - Crusto, Cindy A.
SP  - 605
EP  - 612
VL  - 26
IS  - 5
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0894-9867
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jts.21842
ID  - ref1
ER  -