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Title: Parents' Psychological Well-being and Story Reading: A Six Year Cross-Lagged Analysis
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Chen, Eva Yi-Ju Tung, Eli Yi-Liang |
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Parents' Psychological Well-being and Story Reading: A Six Year Cross-Lagged Analysis Journal of Child and Family Studies published online (4 March 2022): DOI: 10.1007/s10826-022-02272-7. Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10826-022-02272-7 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Children; Depression (see also CESD); Parents, Behavior; Pearlin Mastery Scale; Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) (see Self-Esteem); Well-Being Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Research has documented significant influences of parental psychological well-being on parenting. Yet, few studies have examined multiple measures of psychological well-being simultaneously to understand the underlying pathways and mediation factors. The present study employed new parents, without chronically high depressive symptoms, to examine across-time associations between the frequency of story reading and multiple measures of parental psychological well-being, namely the depressive symptoms, self-esteem, and global sense of personal control, in the first six years after becoming parents. Cross-lagged panel models with three time intervals were constructed to examine the across-time associations with 177 new parents. Significant direct and indirect effects between parental psychological well-being and story reading in the first six years after childbirth were identified. In the first three years after childbirth, new parents with more depressive symptoms and lower self-esteem tended to engage in more frequent story reading. New parents' global sense of personal control, when the child was one to three years old, had a direct positive effect on story reading two to three years later. Through the mediation of self-esteem, parents with low psychological well-being after childbirth tended to engage in more frequent story reading when the child was three to six years old. Furthermore, the indirect effects of story reading on parental well-being were mediated by self-esteem and global sense of personal control. Findings from the present study underscored the importance of considering multiple measures of psychological well-being in understanding the bidirectional interactions between new parents' well-being and early story reading in early family context. |
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Chen, Eva Yi-Ju and Eli Yi-Liang Tung. "Parents' Psychological Well-being and Story Reading: A Six Year Cross-Lagged Analysis." Journal of Child and Family Studies published online (4 March 2022): DOI: 10.1007/s10826-022-02272-7.
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