Parent–child relationships and offspring’s positive mental wellbeing from adolescence to early older age

We examined parent-child relationship quality and positive mental well-being using Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development data. Well-being was measured at ages 13–15 (teacher-rated happiness), 36 (life satisfaction), 43 (satisfaction with home and family life) and 60–64 y...

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Main Authors:	Stafford, Mai, Kuh, Diana L., Gale, Catharine R., Mishra, Gita, Richards, Marcus
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Routledge 2016
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4784487/

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spelling	pubmed-47844872016-03-23 Parent–child relationships and offspring’s positive mental wellbeing from adolescence to early older age Stafford, Mai Kuh, Diana L. Gale, Catharine R. Mishra, Gita Richards, Marcus Articles We examined parent-child relationship quality and positive mental well-being using Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development data. Well-being was measured at ages 13–15 (teacher-rated happiness), 36 (life satisfaction), 43 (satisfaction with home and family life) and 60–64 years (Diener Satisfaction With Life scale and Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-being scale). The Parental Bonding Instrument captured perceived care and control from the father and mother to age 16, recalled by study members at age 43. Greater well-being was seen for offspring with higher combined parental care and lower combined parental psychological control (p < 0.05 at all ages). Controlling for maternal care and paternal and maternal behavioural and psychological control, childhood social class, parental separation, mother’s neuroticism and study member’s personality, higher well-being was consistently related to paternal care. This suggests that both mother–child and father–child relationships may have short and long-term consequences for positive mental well-being. Routledge 2016-05-03 2015-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4784487/ /pubmed/27019664 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2015.1081971 Text en © 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author	Stafford, Mai Kuh, Diana L. Gale, Catharine R. Mishra, Gita Richards, Marcus
spellingShingle	Stafford, Mai Kuh, Diana L. Gale, Catharine R. Mishra, Gita Richards, Marcus Parent–child relationships and offspring’s positive mental wellbeing from adolescence to early older age
author_facet	Stafford, Mai Kuh, Diana L. Gale, Catharine R. Mishra, Gita Richards, Marcus
author_sort	Stafford, Mai
title	Parent–child relationships and offspring’s positive mental wellbeing from adolescence to early older age
title_short	Parent–child relationships and offspring’s positive mental wellbeing from adolescence to early older age
title_full	Parent–child relationships and offspring’s positive mental wellbeing from adolescence to early older age
title_fullStr	Parent–child relationships and offspring’s positive mental wellbeing from adolescence to early older age
title_full_unstemmed	Parent–child relationships and offspring’s positive mental wellbeing from adolescence to early older age
title_sort	parent–child relationships and offspring’s positive mental wellbeing from adolescence to early older age
description	We examined parent-child relationship quality and positive mental well-being using Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development data. Well-being was measured at ages 13–15 (teacher-rated happiness), 36 (life satisfaction), 43 (satisfaction with home and family life) and 60–64 years (Diener Satisfaction With Life scale and Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-being scale). The Parental Bonding Instrument captured perceived care and control from the father and mother to age 16, recalled by study members at age 43. Greater well-being was seen for offspring with higher combined parental care and lower combined parental psychological control (p < 0.05 at all ages). Controlling for maternal care and paternal and maternal behavioural and psychological control, childhood social class, parental separation, mother’s neuroticism and study member’s personality, higher well-being was consistently related to paternal care. This suggests that both mother–child and father–child relationships may have short and long-term consequences for positive mental well-being.
publisher	Routledge
publishDate	2016
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Parent–child relationships and offspring’s positive mental wellbeing from adolescence to early older age

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