TY - JOUR
PY - 2024//
TI - Collateral effects of coping power on caregiver symptoms of depression and long-term changes in child behavior
JO - Development and psychopathology
A1 - Saavedra, Lissette M.
A1 - Lochman, John E.
A1 - Morgan-Lopez, Antonio A.
A1 - McDaniel, Heather L.
A1 - Bradshaw, Catherine P.
A1 - Powell, Nicole P.
A1 - Qu, Lixin
A1 - Budavari, Alexa
A1 - Yaros, Anna C.
SP - ePub
EP - ePub
VL - ePub
IS - ePub
N2 - A large body of research demonstrates positive impacts of the Coping Power Program as a preventive intervention for youth behavioral outcomes, but potential collateral effects for caregivers is less known. The current study examined whether the youth-focused Coping Power Program can have a secondary impact on caregiver self-reported symptoms of depression and in turn result in longer-term impacts on child disruptive behavior problems including aggression, conduct problems and hyperactivity. Data from 360 youth/caregiver pairs across 8 waves of data (grades 4 through 10) were analyzed. We used two methodological approaches to (a) assess indirect effects in the presence of potential bidirectionality using timepoint-to-timepoint dynamic effects under Autoregressive Latent Trajectory modeling and (b) estimate scale scores in the presence of measurement non-invariance.
RESULTS showed that individually delivered Coping Power (ICP) produced greater direct effects on conduct problems and indirect effects on general externalizing and hyperactivity (through reductions in caregiver self-reported symptoms of depression), compared to group Coping Power (GCP). In comparison to GCP, ICP produced similar direct effects on reductions in caregiver depression. Child-focused prevention interventions can have an indirect impact on caregiver depression, which later shows improvements in longer-term reductions for child disruptive problems.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 0954-5794 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S095457942300144X ID - ref1 ER -