Cognitive-affective depression and somatic symptoms clusters are differentially associated with maternal parenting and coparenting

• Author(s): Lamela, Diogo ; Jongenelen, Inês ; Morais, Ana ; Figueiredo, Bárbara
• Date: 2017
• Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/45945
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Depression; Somatic symptoms; Coparenting; Maternal competence; Parenting; Intimate partner violence; Child physical maltreatment
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Universidade do Minho

Description

Both depressive and somatic symptoms are significant predictors of parenting and coparenting problems. However, despite clear evidence of their co-occurrence, no study to date has examined the association between depressive-somatic symptoms clusters and parenting and coparenting. The current research sought to identify and cross-validate clusters of cognitive-affective depressive symptoms and nonspecific somatic symptoms, as well as to test whether clusters would differ on parenting and coparenting problems across three independent samples of mothers.