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. 2021 Dec 21;19(1):45.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph19010045.

Raising Children in Risk Neighborhoods from Chile: Examining the Relationship between Parenting Stress and Parental Adjustment

Eduardo Sandoval-Obando  1 , Marta Alcaide  2 , Miguel Salazar-Muñoz  3 , Sebastián Peña-Troncoso  4   5 , Claudio Hernández-Mosqueira  6 , Sofia Gimenez-Serrano  7
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Raising Children in Risk Neighborhoods from Chile: Examining the Relationship between Parenting Stress and Parental Adjustment

Eduardo Sandoval-Obando et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

Introduction: Parenting stress and parental adjustment could implicate key differences in the relational dynamics that parents establish with their children, particularly when families come from vulnerable social contexts.

Method: Participants were 142 fathers and mothers from a risk neighborhood of Chile. The variables examined were parenting stress (parental distress, parent-child dysfunctional interaction and difficult child) and parental adjustment (depression, anxiety, and stress). Parents also completed a sociodemographic characterization survey. The statistical analyses were a correlation analysis and multiple linear regression analyses.

Results: Overall, not all components of parenting stress were related to parental adjustment. Only parental distress was found as a significant predictor of poor parental adjustment (greater depression, anxiety, and stress), but not parent-child dysfunctional interaction and having a difficult child.

Conclusions: The present study findings highlight the influence of stress on parenting as a relevant dimension of research for the improvement of the intervention deployed by the state regarding the protection of vulnerable Chilean children, providing multiple clinical and psychosocial applications for research and intervention purposes.

Keywords: anxiety; childhood; depression; development; parental stress; parenting.

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