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Family dynamics on mental health: a network analysis
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Jiang Z
; Tetkovic I
; Neufeld S
; Ford T
; Chen BB
Npj Ment Health Res
2025[Oct]; 4
(1
): 54
PMID41131359
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The dynamic relationships between children's, parents', and siblings' mental
health have yet to be systematically explored. The present study employed network
analysis to investigate concurrent and longitudinal associations of mental health
symptoms in children during early childhood and their parents and siblings. A
total of 3750 cohort members (47.9% female; Mage = 3.1 at T1), along with their
mothers, fathers, and older siblings from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), were
assessed for mental health problems at two waves spaced two years apart.
Contemporaneous networks revealed extensive associations between intra-individual
and inter-individual symptoms within the family. The older siblings' symptoms
were the strongest bridging symptoms connecting to their younger siblings.
Temporal networks demonstrated directional effects from parent to child, father
to mother, and older sibling to younger sibling. Maternal depressive feelings
exhibited the strongest predictive effect in the family network. Overall, our
findings suggest the spillover effect of mental health problems within families,
underscoring the need to consider the psychological symptoms of other family
members when treating individual symptoms.
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