title: Korean American parental depressive symptoms and children's mental health: the mediating role of parental acceptance-rejection.
abstract: This study explored the mediating role of parental acceptance-rejection in the relationship between parental depressive symptoms and children's mental health. Self-report data were gathered from 95 mothers and 91 fathers of children (ages 5-10 years) in Korean American families. For mothers and fathers, the relationship between parental depressive symptoms and child psychosocial problems was mediated by parenting behaviors, with parental rejection being a much stronger mediator than parental acceptance. For fathers, the relationship between fathers' depressive symptoms and child social competence was mediated by parenting, with fathers' parental rejection being a slightly stronger mediator than fathers' parental acceptance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Child Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. eunjungk@u.washington.edu
authors.forename: Eunjung
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001213:Asian; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005220:Fathers / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012929:Psychological Distance; D056910:Republic of Korea / Q000208:ethnology