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Pathways from Maternal Harsh Discipline Through Rumination to Anxiety and Depression Symptoms: Gender and Normativeness of Harsh Discipline as Moderators.

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Iselin, A-MR; DiGiunta, L; Lunetti, C; Lansford, JE; Eisenberg, N; Dodge, KA; Pastorelli, C; Tirado, LMU; Bacchini, D; Thartori, E; Gliozzo, G ...
Published in: Research on child and adolescent psychopathology
October 2022

This study examined gender-specific longitudinal pathways from harsh parenting through rumination to anxiety and depression symptoms among early adolescents from three countries and six subgroups. Participants were 567 mothers, 428 fathers, and 566 children (T1: Mage = 10.89; 50% girls) from Medellín, Colombia (n = 100); Naples, Italy (n = 95); Rome, Italy (n = 99); Durham, North Carolina, United States (Black n = 92, Latinx n = 80, and White n = 100). Parent reported maternal and paternal harsh parenting were measured at T1. Adolescent reported rumination was measured at T2 (Mage = 12.58) and anxiety and depression symptoms were measured at T1 and T3 (Mage = 13.71). Rumination mediated the pathway from maternal harsh discipline to girls' anxiety and depression symptoms, controlling for baseline anxiety and depression symptoms. The more harsh discipline mothers used, the more their daughters ruminated, which in turn was associated with increased anxiety and depression symptoms. Exploratory moderated mediation analyses indicated that the strength of the mediational pathway from maternal harsh discipline through girls' rumination to anxiety and depression symptoms decreased as the normativeness of harsh parenting increased. Mediational pathways for boys and for paternal harsh discipline were not significant. Our findings expand knowledge on specific contexts in which rumination is a mechanism for understanding pathways to anxiety and depression symptoms.

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Research on child and adolescent psychopathology

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EISSN

2730-7174

ISSN

2730-7166

Publication Date

October 2022

Volume

50

Issue

10

Start / End Page

1313 / 1326

Related Subject Headings

  • Parenting
  • Mothers
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Depression
  • Child
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Anxiety
  • Adolescent
 

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Iselin, A.-M., DiGiunta, L., Lunetti, C., Lansford, J. E., Eisenberg, N., Dodge, K. A., … Skinner, A. T. (2022). Pathways from Maternal Harsh Discipline Through Rumination to Anxiety and Depression Symptoms: Gender and Normativeness of Harsh Discipline as Moderators. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 50(10), 1313–1326. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-022-00951-z
Iselin, Anne-Marie R., Laura DiGiunta, Carolina Lunetti, Jennifer E. Lansford, Nancy Eisenberg, Kenneth A. Dodge, Concetta Pastorelli, et al. “Pathways from Maternal Harsh Discipline Through Rumination to Anxiety and Depression Symptoms: Gender and Normativeness of Harsh Discipline as Moderators.Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology 50, no. 10 (October 2022): 1313–26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-022-00951-z.
Iselin A-MR, DiGiunta L, Lunetti C, Lansford JE, Eisenberg N, Dodge KA, et al. Pathways from Maternal Harsh Discipline Through Rumination to Anxiety and Depression Symptoms: Gender and Normativeness of Harsh Discipline as Moderators. Research on child and adolescent psychopathology. 2022 Oct;50(10):1313–26.
Iselin, Anne-Marie R., et al. “Pathways from Maternal Harsh Discipline Through Rumination to Anxiety and Depression Symptoms: Gender and Normativeness of Harsh Discipline as Moderators.Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, vol. 50, no. 10, Oct. 2022, pp. 1313–26. Epmc, doi:10.1007/s10802-022-00951-z.
Iselin A-MR, DiGiunta L, Lunetti C, Lansford JE, Eisenberg N, Dodge KA, Pastorelli C, Tirado LMU, Bacchini D, Thartori E, Fiasconaro I, Gliozzo G, Favini A, Basili E, Cirimele F, Remondi C, Skinner AT. Pathways from Maternal Harsh Discipline Through Rumination to Anxiety and Depression Symptoms: Gender and Normativeness of Harsh Discipline as Moderators. Research on child and adolescent psychopathology. 2022 Oct;50(10):1313–1326.

Published In

Research on child and adolescent psychopathology

DOI

EISSN

2730-7174

ISSN

2730-7166

Publication Date

October 2022

Volume

50

Issue

10

Start / End Page

1313 / 1326

Related Subject Headings

  • Parenting
  • Mothers
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Depression
  • Child
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Anxiety
  • Adolescent