title: Maternal childhood abuse, intimate partner violence, and child psychopathology: the mediator role of mothers' mental health.
abstract: This study examined the mediator role of mothers' mental health in the relationship among maternal childhood abuse (CA), intimate partner violence (IPV), and offspring's psychopathology, and explored whether mediational pathways were moderated by children's sex. Participants were 327 Spanish outpatient children, 8 to 17 years old, and their mothers. Mothers' global psychological distress and depressive symptoms mediated the associations between mothers' violence history and children's externalizing problems. However, only depressive symptoms fully mediated these relationships. Children's sex did not have a moderating role in adjusted paths. Mothers' depressive symptoms are an important mechanism by which maternal violence experiences could affect externalizing problems in Spanish children.
authors: Unit of Epidemiology and Diagnosis in Developmental Psychopathology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Jenniffer.Miranda@e-campus.uab.cat
authors: Jenniffer K
authors: JK
authors: Miranda
authors: Nuria
authors: N
authors: de la Osa
authors: Roser
authors: R
authors: Granero
authors: Lourdes
authors: L
authors: Ezpeleta
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D054523:Adult Survivors of Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D018585:Battered Women / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000523:psychology; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D003863:Depression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D009034:Mother-Child Relations / Q000523:psychology; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D012737:Sex Factors; D012747:Sexual Partners; D013030:Spain; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological