Postnatal paternal depressive symptoms associated with fathers' subsequent parenting: findings from the Millennium Cohort Study.
Impaired parenting may lie on the causal pathway between paternal depression and children's outcomes. We use the first four surveys of the Millennium Cohort Study to investigate the association between paternal depressive symptoms and fathers' parenting (negative, positive and involvement). Findings suggest that postnatal paternal depressive symptoms are associated with fathers' negative parenting. This has implications for the design of intervention programmes for parents with depression and young children.
Selina Nath, PhD, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London; Ginny Russell, PhD, Tamsin Ford, MRCPsych, PhD, University of Exeter Medical School, Willem Kuyken, PhD, DClinPsy, Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford; Lamprini Psychogiou, PhD, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK selina.nath@kcl.ac.uk.
Selina
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Nath
Selina Nath, PhD, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London; Ginny Russell, PhD, Tamsin Ford, MRCPsych, PhD, University of Exeter Medical School, Willem Kuyken, PhD, DClinPsy, Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford; Lamprini Psychogiou, PhD, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
Ginny
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Russell
Selina Nath, PhD, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London; Ginny Russell, PhD, Tamsin Ford, MRCPsych, PhD, University of Exeter Medical School, Willem Kuyken, PhD, DClinPsy, Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford; Lamprini Psychogiou, PhD, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
Tamsin
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Ford
Selina Nath, PhD, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London; Ginny Russell, PhD, Tamsin Ford, MRCPsych, PhD, University of Exeter Medical School, Willem Kuyken, PhD, DClinPsy, Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford; Lamprini Psychogiou, PhD, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
Willem
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Kuyken
Selina Nath, PhD, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London; Ginny Russell, PhD, Tamsin Ford, MRCPsych, PhD, University of Exeter Medical School, Willem Kuyken, PhD, DClinPsy, Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford; Lamprini Psychogiou, PhD, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
Lamprini
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Psychogiou
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D019052:Depression, Postpartum / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005220:Fathers / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom