Interrelationships of caregiver mental health, parenting practices, and child development in rural China

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105855

	Interrelationships of caregiver mental health, parenting practices, and child development in rural China
	Zhong, Jingdong 2; Wang, Tianyi 3; He, Yang 3; Gao, Jingjing 3; Liu, Chengfang 3; Lai, Fang 3; Zhang, Liuxiu 1; Luo, Renfu 3
刊名	CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW
	2021-02-01
卷号	121 页码:10
关键词	Early child development Mental health Parental investments Parenting skills Rural China
ISSN号	0190-7409
DOI	10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105855
通讯作者	Luo, Renfu(luorf.ccap@pku.edu.cn)
英文摘要	Background: Parenting practices are associated with early childhood development (ECD), and some evidences suggest that mental health might affect parenting practices. However, the interrelationships of mental health, parenting practices, and ECD outcomes have not yet been well documented in developing contexts like rural China. Objective: This paper aims to investigate the interrelationships between the caregiver's mental health, parenting practices, and the child's ECD outcomes in rural China. Methods: A total of 1787 sample households in an undeveloped rural area of western China are enrolled in the study. A socioeconomic questionnaire, the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale, the Family Care Indicators, the Parent and Family Adjustment Scales, and the Bayley Scales of Infant Development version III were used to measure the socioeconomic characteristics of sample households, the caregiver's mental health, parental investments and parenting skills, and the child's development outcomes, respectively. Mediation model was then applied to estimate the interrelationships. Results: The results showed that parental practices significantly mediated between the caregiver's mental health and the child's cognition, language, motor, and social-emotion development. Through parental investments, one standard deviation increases in the caregiver's mental health test score was associated with the decline in the child's four development scores by 0.6% standard deviation, respectively. Through parenting skills, one standard deviation increases in the caregiver's mental health test score was associated with the decline in the child's language and social-emotional score by 2% and 5% standard deviation, respectively. Different dimensions of caregiver mental health, parental investments and skills played heterogeneous roles in the interrelationships. Conclusions: Early interventions aimed at improving the caregiver's mental health, parental investments and skills are important and might be effective to improve early childhood development in rural China.
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China, China[71873008] ; UBS Optimus Foundation (switzerland)[10969] ; International Initiative for Impact Evaluation[PW3.06]
WOS研究方向	Family Studies ; Social Work
语种	英语
出版者	PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
WOS记录号	WOS:000618889200009
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China, China ; UBS Optimus Foundation (switzerland) ; International Initiative for Impact Evaluation
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/160723]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Luo, Renfu
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Key Lab Ecosyst Network Observat & Modeling, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Peking Univ, Sch Econ, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China 3.Peking Univ, China Ctr Agr Policy, Sch Adv Agr Sci, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhong, Jingdong,Wang, Tianyi,He, Yang,et al. Interrelationships of caregiver mental health, parenting practices, and child development in rural China[J]. CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW,2021,121:10.
APA	Zhong, Jingdong.,Wang, Tianyi.,He, Yang.,Gao, Jingjing.,Liu, Chengfang.,...&Luo, Renfu.(2021).Interrelationships of caregiver mental health, parenting practices, and child development in rural China.CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW,121,10.
MLA	Zhong, Jingdong,et al."Interrelationships of caregiver mental health, parenting practices, and child development in rural China".CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW 121(2021):10.