Trial reportJournal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43)2014
Parenting intervention effects on parental depressive symptoms: examining the role of parenting and child behavior.
Trial report in Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.
- ¿Está disponible en español? A Systematic Review of Preventive Parenting Interventions Delivered in a Language Other Than English in the United States.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Pooled it
- A Systematic Review Focusing on Psychotherapeutic Interventions that Impact Parental Psychopathology, Child Psychopathology and Parenting Behavior.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2021Pooled it
- Effectiveness of the coping and parental competence intervention on mental well-being in parents of preschool children with special educational needs: A randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Effect of Middle School Interventions on Alcohol Misuse and Abuse in Mexican American High School Adolescents: Five-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA psychiatry · 2018Trial
- Annual Research Review: Beyond the target - understanding crossover effects in family-centered prevention.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Review
- Opportunities to Improve the Implementation of Relational Health Interventions for Children and Families: A Secondary Analysis of a Scoping Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Article
- A Living Scoping Review of Universal Interventions for Promoting Relational Health in Childhood, Adolescence and Young Adulthood.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Article
- Differences Between Stressed Parents and Their Children: A Brief Analysis on Parent-Child Depression, Stress, Aggression and Possible Roles of Digitalized Parenting Education.Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2025Article
- Mindful Parenting Group Intervention for Parents of Children with Anxiety Disorders.Child psychiatry and human development · 2024Article
- Association of parental adverse childhood experiences with offspring sleep problems: the role of psychological distress and harsh discipline.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2024Article
- The Relationship Between Harsh Parenting and Smartphone Addiction Among Adolescents: Serial Mediating Role of Depression and Social Pain.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
- Hispanic Mothers' Experiences with School-Based Emotional Health Curriculum and Perspectives of Their Own Mental Health Needs.Issues in mental health nursing · 2019Article
- Child-based treatment of oppositional defiant disorder: mediating effects on parental depression, anxiety and stress.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2018Article
- Translating Genetic Research into Preventive Intervention: The Baseline Target Moderated Mediator Design.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
Parental depression is a major risk factor in child development. Growing research suggests parenting programs can positively impact parental depressive symptoms, although the specific mechanisms that explain these effects are unknown. The current study examined parenting mediated effects of a parenting program on mothers' and fathers' depressive symptoms, as well as the role of child behavior in linking parenting to reductions in depressive symptoms. The study samples included 494 mothers and 288 fathers of Mexican origin adolescents who participated in a randomized trial of the Bridges to High School Program/Proyecto Puentes a la Secundaria, a universal prevention and promotion intervention that included parent training but did not directly target parental depressive symptoms. Parenting mediator models tested program effects on parental depressive symptoms through changes in harsh and supportive parenting. Results showed a significant indirect intervention effect on maternal depressive symptoms through changes in mothers' harsh parenting. Next, child behavior models revealed a partial mediation effect of harsh parenting and a full mediation effect of supportive parenting on maternal depressive symptoms through mothers' reports of child externalizing symptoms. Indirect effects of fathers' harsh and supportive parenting on paternal depressive symptoms were also found through fathers' reports of child behavior.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.