MINNEAPOLIS, Oct 1, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Parents in low-income
environments, especially in rural regions, are more prone to depression if they
lack social support, U.S. researchers say.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Kansas State
University and University of Wisconsin in Madison examined the relationships
among family income, social support, parental depression and parenting in 290
predominantly rural families with children at risk for disruptive or socially
withdrawn behaviors.
Structural equation modeling and multiple regression were used, and the results
showed that low-family income was related to high levels of parental depression,
which in turn were associated with disruptive parenting.
The findings, published in the journal Family Relations, also showed that social
support mediated the adverse relationship between low-family income and parental
depression. Social support was directly related to positive parenting and
indirectly related to parent-child relational frustration through parental
depression, the study says.
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