eprintid: 10057794
rev_number: 19
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datestamp: 2018-10-08 13:44:45
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type: article
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creators_name: Jess, M
creators_name: Totsika, V
creators_name: Hastings, RP
title: Maternal Stress and the Functions of Positivity in Mothers of Children with Intellectual Disability
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divisions: UCL
divisions: B02
divisions: C07
divisions: D79
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abstract: Although mothers raising children with Intellectual Disability (ID) report poorer mental health than parents raising typically developing children, they also report feelings of positivity; both generally and specific to their child. To date little is known about the function of maternal positivity thus, we explored the putative compensatory and protective functions of maternal positivity, within both a cross-sectional and one-year longitudinal framework that examined the relationship between children’s behaviour and mental health problems with maternal mental health problems. Participants included 135 mothers of children with severe ID who were between 3 and 18 years of age. Multiple linear regression models investigated the potential function of maternal positivity. At a cross-sectional level, maternal positivity was found to be a significant independent predictor of maternal stress and moderated the impact of child behaviour problems on maternal parenting stress. Longitudinally, maternal positivity did not have a direct effect on later parenting stress nor function as a moderator. Findings from our cross-sectional analysis are consistent with the view that positivity serves a compensatory function. Further exploration is needed to understand the longitudinal function of maternal positivity.
date: 2018-07-20
date_type: published
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-018-1186-1
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
article_type_text: Article
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elements_id: 1588881
doi: 10.1007/s10826-018-1186-1
lyricists_name: Totsika, Vasiliki
lyricists_id: VTOTS67
actors_name: Dewerpe, Marie
actors_id: MDDEW97
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of Child and Family Studies
volume: 27
number: 11
pagerange: 3753-3763
issn: 1062-1024
citation:        Jess, M;    Totsika, V;    Hastings, RP;      (2018)    Maternal Stress and the Functions of Positivity in Mothers of Children with Intellectual Disability.                   Journal of Child and Family Studies , 27  (11)   pp. 3753-3763.    10.1007/s10826-018-1186-1 <https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-018-1186-1>.       Green open access   
 
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