Early socioeconomic conditions to children's trait resilience: longitudinal mediation effects of mothers' and fathers' parenting

作者：Yu M, Tng GYQ, Lin Z, Chen H, Eriksson JG, Chong YS, Tiemeier H, Setoh P · 发表于：Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1186/s13034-025-00979-1 · 被引用次数：89 · 研究领域：Childhood、Culture、Fathers、Mothers、Parenting、Resilience、Socioeconomic status

BACKGROUND: Trait resilience is a well-established protective factor against diverse social-emotional challenges and stress-associated psychiatric disorders. Its cultivation may thus be exceptionally critical for children exposed to early financial adversity, which has been demonstrated to confer elevated vulnerabilities to psychosocial maladjustment. Grounded in the Family Stress Model with a focus on an understudied Asian population, this longitudinal study investigates how early family socioeconomic disadvantage indirectly shapes children's trait resilience through key parenting dimensions-warmth, rejection, and autonomy support-by both mothers and fathers. METHODS: This longitudinal study was embedded in a multi-ethnic, pre-birth cohort involving Singaporean families (57.3% Chinese, 30.0% Malay, 12.7% Indian), comprising 430 biological mothers (MAge = 30.5, SDAge = 5.13), 430 children (47.9% female), and 348 biological fathers (MAge = 33.9, SDAge = 6.03). Key family socioeconomic characteristics were measured at baseline during the 11th week of pregnancy via maternal report (maternal education, household income, and housing type), and at 2 or 3 years postnatal via paternal report (paternal education). Children reported on mothers' and fathers' parenting practices (warmth, rejection, and autonomy support) separately at 8.5 years with the Parental Bonding Instrument, and trait resilience at 10.5 years with the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale-25. RESULTS: Children from fa...