The Relationship between Parental Efficacy and Depressive Symptoms in a Diverse Sample of Low Income Mothers |
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Authors: | Jennifer O’Neil Melvin N Wilson Daniel S Shaw Thomas J Dishion |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Box 400400, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400, USA;(2) Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;(3) Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA |
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Abstract: | We examined the relationship between parental efficacy and depressive symptoms in a diverse sample of low income mothers.
The sample consisted of 607 European American, African American, and Hispanic mothers who participated in The Early Steps
Project, a multi-site, longitudinal, preventative intervention study. Parental efficacy was found to be significantly associated
with depressive symptoms in the entire sample of low income mothers. Ethnicity moderated results, however, such that parental
efficacy was significantly associated with depressive symptoms for European American mothers but was not for the African American
and Hispanic mothers. Ethnic differences in the various categories of depressive symptoms (i.e., total, somatic, and psychological)
were also explored, with the results showing that African American mothers reported higher levels of depressive symptoms than
both European American and Hispanic mothers in each of the categories. The theoretical and clinical implications of these
results are discussed. |
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