Journal article
Playful activities mitigate relations between parental mental health difficulties and child verbal outcomes
Child development, Vol.96(2), pp.562-576
03/2025
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.14187
PMCID: PMC11868687
PMID: 39445790
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Abstract
This study examined the role of parental involvement in the home learning environment in the association between parental mental health and child cognitive performance. In a sample of 174 three- to five-year-old children (52% female, 97% White, 7% Hispanic, 2019-2022), playful activities moderated the relation between parental general depression and child verbal reasoning and acquired verbal knowledge. However, there was no evidence that parental involvement moderated the association between parental mental health and child spatial reasoning. These results improve our understanding of the pathways by which parental mental health, even in a non-clinical community sample, relate to child outcomes and raise the possibility of leveraging playful activities as one mechanism to alleviate the potential role of parental mental health difficulties.This study examined the role of parental involvement in the home learning environment in the association between parental mental health and child cognitive performance. In a sample of 174 three- to five-year-old children (52% female, 97% White, 7% Hispanic, 2019-2022), playful activities moderated the relation between parental general depression and child verbal reasoning and acquired verbal knowledge. However, there was no evidence that parental involvement moderated the association between parental mental health and child spatial reasoning. These results improve our understanding of the pathways by which parental mental health, even in a non-clinical community sample, relate to child outcomes and raise the possibility of leveraging playful activities as one mechanism to alleviate the potential role of parental mental health difficulties.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Playful activities mitigate relations between parental mental health difficulties and child verbal outcomes
- Creators
- Paige M Nelson - University of IowaFrancesca Scheiber - University of IowaHaley M Laughlin - University of IowaÖ Ece Demir-Lira - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Child development, Vol.96(2), pp.562-576
- DOI
- 10.1111/cdev.14187
- PMID
- 39445790
- PMCID
- PMC11868687
- NLM abbreviation
- Child Dev
- ISSN
- 1467-8624
- eISSN
- 1467-8624
- Publisher
- Wiley; HOBOKEN
- Grant note
The authors would like to thank the families who participated in the study and research assistants who helped with data collection.
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 10/24/2024
- Date published
- 03/2025
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984738441102771
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