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How are parental mental health and parenting practices associated with externalizing behaviors among young children with autism in China? A cross-sectional study and indirect effect analysis
- Abstract:
- Children with autism are more likely to exhibit externalizing behaviors than children without autism. A cross-sectional study was undertaken to investigate how parental mental health status and parenting practices contributed to the variance in externalizing behaviors among families of young children with autism in Chinese mainland, and whether parenting behaviors had any indirect effects on the relationship between parental mental health symptoms and externalizing behaviors. Data were drawn from the baseline assessment of a quasi-experimental study of a parent training program delivered to Chinese caregivers of children with autism aged 3 to 6 from diverse backgrounds (N = 111). Results showed that parental mental health symptoms and parenting behaviors explained the variance in child externalizing behaviors. Parental mental health problems and parental over-reactivity were linked to higher levels of child externalizing behaviors, whereas positive parenting was associated with less frequent externalizing behaviors. Positive parenting partially explained the relationship between parental mental health symptoms and externalizing behaviors. The findings of this study highlight the importance of actively attending to the psychological and parenting needs of caregivers in autism treatment programs. It points to the need for the development of culturally sensitive strategies to promote parental mental health and increase the use of positive parenting skills among parents of children with autism.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1111/famp.12940
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/01613vh25
- Grant:
- CSO SPHSU16
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Journal:
- Family Process More from this journal
- Volume:
- 63
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 932-946
- Place of publication:
- United States
- Publication date:
- 2023-09-25
- Acceptance date:
- 2023-08-24
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1545-5300
- ISSN:
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0014-7370
- Pmid:
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37743778
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1536851
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pubs:1536851
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- 2023
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- © 2023 The Authors. Family Process published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Family Process Institute. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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