Yanlin Li1, Jiahui Chu1, Fang Wen1, Liping Yu1, Junjuan Yan1, Fang Wang1, Jingran Liu1, Ying Li2, Yonghua Cui3. 1. Department of psychiatry, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing, China. 2. Department of psychiatry, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing, China. liying@bch.com.cn. 3. Department of psychiatry, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing, China. cuiyonghua@bch.com.cn.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Life events and parenting styles might play an important role in children's mental health. AIMS: This study aims to explore how life events and parenting styles influence children's mental health based on a Chinese sample. METHODS: A total of 3535 participants had at least one mental disorder (positive group), while a total of 3561 participants had no mental disorders (negative group). The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Check List (ASLEC) and Egna Minnen Beträffande Uppfostran (EMBU) were used for screening these two groups. RESULTS: CBCL total scores differed significantly by sex in the Positive group according to the Mann-Whitney tests (Z = -5.40, p < 0.001). Multiple regression analyses showed that the dimensions of punishment (p = 0.014) and other (p = 0.048) in the ASLEC scale can significantly predict CBCL total scores in the Positive group. Sex, age and overprotection from the father were risk factors (p < 0.001) according to binary logistic regression. CONCLUSIONS: Life events and parenting styles may have impacts on mental health. Fathers play a very important role in children's growth. Punitive education and fathers' overprotection might be risk factors for children's mental health. IMPACT: It is a large sample (3535) study of Chinese children and adolescents It provides evidence that life events and parenting styles have impacts on mental health and that fathers play a very important role in children's growth. It is conducive to the development of interventions for the mental health of children and adolescents.
BACKGROUND: Life events and parenting styles might play an important role in children's mental health. AIMS: This study aims to explore how life events and parenting styles influence children's mental health based on a Chinese sample. METHODS: A total of 3535 participants had at least one mental disorder (positive group), while a total of 3561 participants had no mental disorders (negative group). The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Check List (ASLEC) and Egna Minnen Beträffande Uppfostran (EMBU) were used for screening these two groups. RESULTS: CBCL total scores differed significantly by sex in the Positive group according to the Mann-Whitney tests (Z = -5.40, p < 0.001). Multiple regression analyses showed that the dimensions of punishment (p = 0.014) and other (p = 0.048) in the ASLEC scale can significantly predict CBCL total scores in the Positive group. Sex, age and overprotection from the father were risk factors (p < 0.001) according to binary logistic regression. CONCLUSIONS: Life events and parenting styles may have impacts on mental health. Fathers play a very important role in children's growth. Punitive education and fathers' overprotection might be risk factors for children's mental health. IMPACT: It is a large sample (3535) study of Chinese children and adolescents It provides evidence that life events and parenting styles have impacts on mental health and that fathers play a very important role in children's growth. It is conducive to the development of interventions for the mental health of children and adolescents.
Authors: Hmwe H Kyu; Christine Pinho; Joseph A Wagner; Jonathan C Brown; Amelia Bertozzi-Villa; Fiona J Charlson; Luc Edgar Coffeng; Lalit Dandona; Holly E Erskine; Alize J Ferrari; Christina Fitzmaurice; Thomas D Fleming; Mohammad H Forouzanfar; Nicholas Graetz; Caterina Guinovart; Juanita Haagsma; Hideki Higashi; Nicholas J Kassebaum; Heidi J Larson; Stephen S Lim; Ali H Mokdad; Maziar Moradi-Lakeh; Shaun V Odell; Gregory A Roth; Peter T Serina; Jeffrey D Stanaway; Awoke Misganaw; Harvey A Whiteford; Timothy M Wolock; Sarah Wulf Hanson; Foad Abd-Allah; Semaw Ferede Abera; Laith J Abu-Raddad; Fadia S AlBuhairan; Azmeraw T Amare; Carl Abelardo T Antonio; Al Artaman; Suzanne L Barker-Collo; Lope H Barrero; Corina Benjet; Isabela M Bensenor; Zulfiqar A Bhutta; Boris Bikbov; Alexandra Brazinova; Ismael Campos-Nonato; Carlos A Castañeda-Orjuela; Ferrán Catalá-López; Rajiv Chowdhury; Cyrus Cooper; John A Crump; Rakhi Dandona; Louisa Degenhardt; Robert P Dellavalle; Samath D Dharmaratne; Emerito Jose A Faraon; Valery L Feigin; Thomas Fürst; Johanna M Geleijnse; Bradford D Gessner; Katherine B Gibney; Atsushi Goto; David Gunnell; Graeme J Hankey; Roderick J Hay; John C Hornberger; H Dean Hosgood; Guoqing Hu; Kathryn H Jacobsen; Sudha P Jayaraman; Panniyammakal Jeemon; Jost B Jonas; André Karch; Daniel Kim; Sungroul Kim; Yoshihiro Kokubo; Barthelemy Kuate Defo; Burcu Kucuk Bicer; G Anil Kumar; Anders Larsson; Janet L Leasher; Ricky Leung; Yongmei Li; Steven E Lipshultz; Alan D Lopez; Paulo A Lotufo; Raimundas Lunevicius; Ronan A Lyons; Marek Majdan; Reza Malekzadeh; Taufiq Mashal; Amanda J Mason-Jones; Yohannes Adama Melaku; Ziad A Memish; Walter Mendoza; Ted R Miller; Charles N Mock; Joseph Murray; Sandra Nolte; In-Hwan Oh; Bolajoko Olubukunola Olusanya; Katrina F Ortblad; Eun-Kee Park; Angel J Paternina Caicedo; Scott B Patten; George C Patton; David M Pereira; Norberto Perico; Frédéric B Piel; Suzanne Polinder; Svetlana Popova; Farshad Pourmalek; D Alex Quistberg; Giuseppe Remuzzi; Alina Rodriguez; David Rojas-Rueda; Dietrich Rothenbacher; David H Rothstein; Juan Sanabria; Itamar S Santos; David C Schwebel; Sadaf G Sepanlou; Amira Shaheen; Rahman Shiri; Ivy Shiue; Vegard Skirbekk; Karen Sliwa; Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy; Dan J Stein; Timothy J Steiner; Lars Jacob Stovner; Bryan L Sykes; Karen M Tabb; Abdullah Sulieman Terkawi; Alan J Thomson; Andrew L Thorne-Lyman; Jeffrey Allen Towbin; Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja; Tommi Vasankari; Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian; Vasiliy Victorovich Vlassov; Stein Emil Vollset; Elisabete Weiderpass; Robert G Weintraub; Andrea Werdecker; James D Wilkinson; Solomon Meseret Woldeyohannes; Charles D A Wolfe; Yuichiro Yano; Paul Yip; Naohiro Yonemoto; Seok-Jun Yoon; Mustafa Z Younis; Chuanhua Yu; Maysaa El Sayed Zaki; Mohsen Naghavi; Christopher J L Murray; Theo Vos Journal: JAMA Pediatr Date: 2016-03 Impact factor: 16.193