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The Influence of Parents and Family Factors on Children’s Mental Health

A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Nursing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 August 2023) | Viewed by 2560

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Jin-won Noh

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Division of Health Administration, College of Software and Digital Healthcare Convergence, Yonsei University, Wonju 26493, Korea
Interests: mental health; depression; child development

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

I am honoured to have been asked to serve as a guest editor for the new Special Issue of Children entitled “The Influence of Parents and Family Factors on Children’s Mental Health.”

There is a growing awareness that the identification of and intervention in mental health problems in childhood and adolescents are effective and have a preventive effect.

Investigating parental and familial perception of mental health needs in children is highly relevant, as they are the primary informants for children.

The aim of this Special Issue is to produce a rich collection of research, articles, and opinions for clinicians, academics, and policy makers in the field of children’s mental health. Contributions involving all aspects of this topic including the understanding, management, and improvement of mental health in children will be welcomed.

Our work will be based on an interdisciplinary approach to disseminate advanced knowledge and evidence with the aim to provide the potential for a more comprehensive understanding of the relationship between parents, familial factors, and children's mental health.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Jin-won Noh
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Children is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • mental health
  • depression
  • anxiety
  • trauma
  • adverse life events
  • resilience
  • parenting
  • child development
  • adolescent
  • parent–child relations

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The Relationship between Paternal Alexithymia and Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Behavioral Problems during Early Childhood
by Donatella Scarzello
Children 2023, 10(9), 1498; https://doi.org/10.3390/children10091498 - 01 Sep 2023
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The literature has long recognized that parental emotional competence, that is, the ability to express, understand, and regulate emotions, plays a key role in children’s development from early childhood. Nevertheless, the effect of parental alexithymia, which can be understood as a deficit in [...] Read more.
The literature has long recognized that parental emotional competence, that is, the ability to express, understand, and regulate emotions, plays a key role in children’s development from early childhood. Nevertheless, the effect of parental alexithymia, which can be understood as a deficit in emotional competence, has not been thoroughly studied. In particular, the association between paternal alexithymia and behavioral problems in young children is still a neglected area of research. This study aims to investigate the association between paternal alexithymia and children’s internalizing and externalizing problems during the first three years of life, including whether overreactive parenting practices mediate the effect of alexithymia on children’s behavioral problems. A sample of 203 fathers of children aged 18–36 months were administered the TAS-20, the Overreactivity subscale of the Parenting Scale, and the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)/1½-5. The data indicate that paternal alexithymia is a predictor of children’s internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems and that paternal overreactivity mediates the effect of alexithymia. These results highlight the importance of preventing parental alexithymia and involving fathers in parenting support programs aimed at ensuring children’s mental health and adjustment. Full article
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Pathways to Children’s Behavioral Problems during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Fathers’ Parenting Stress and Parenting Approaches
by Fatma Ozge Ünsal and Ibrahim Hakki Acar
Children 2023, 10(4), 639; https://doi.org/10.3390/children10040639 - 29 Mar 2023
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Although the family stress model theoretically focuses on the roles of both mothers and fathers as predictors of children’s outcomes, studies generally have focused on mothers. The pandemic has brought additional burdens to parents’ daily functioning, including fathers’ involvement in childcare. The current [...] Read more.
Although the family stress model theoretically focuses on the roles of both mothers and fathers as predictors of children’s outcomes, studies generally have focused on mothers. The pandemic has brought additional burdens to parents’ daily functioning, including fathers’ involvement in childcare. The current study aimed to examine the contributions of fathers’ parenting stress and parenting approaches to their children’s behavior problems during the COVID-19 pandemic. Particularly, we examined the indirect effects of parenting stress on children’s behavior problems via parenting practices. The participants were 155 fathers (Mage = 36.87, SD = 5.11) and their children (71 girls, 84 boys; Mage = 59.52, SD = 14.98) from Turkish contexts. The fathers reported their parenting stress, approaches, and children’s behavioral problems. The results from the path analysis showed that parenting stress predicted children’s internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Parenting stress also predicted severe punishment and obedience as parts of the parenting approach. Finally, parenting stress was indirectly related to children’s externalizing behaviors via the punishment-based parenting approach of fathers. The findings of the current study highlighted the importance of examining the roles of fathers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Intervention programs targeting reducing fathers’ parenting stress and negative parenting approaches would also be beneficial for reducing children’s behavioral problems. Full article
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