ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences2016
Cognitive Aging in Parents of Children with Disabilities.
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- The Health of Mothers of Adult Children with Serious Conditions.Journal of marriage and the family · 2022Article
- Maternal Pragmatic Language Difficulties in the FMR1 Premutation and the Broad Autism Phenotype: Associations with Individual and Family Outcomes.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Article
- Gendered racial disparities in health of parents with children with developmental disabilities.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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- Apolipoprotein ɛ4 Allele and Subjective Cognitive Functioning in Parents of Adults With Disabilities.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2020Article
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- Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Neural Substrates of Parental Care.Trends in neurosciences · 2019Review
- Health of parents of individuals with developmental disorders or mental health problems: Impacts of stigma.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2018Article
- Curvilinear Association Between Language Disfluency andFrontiers in genetics · 2018Article
- Executive Functioning Mediates the Effect of Behavioral Problems on Depression in Mothers of Children With Developmental Disabilities.American journal on intellectual and developmental disabilities · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis study examines the cognitive functioning of parents of children with disabilities, specifically, whether there is an evidence of accelerated cognitive aging among these parents. In addition, the study investigates the moderating influences of two variables: parents' gender and stress from negative parenting experience.
methodThe analyses utilize data from the National Survey of Midlife in the United States (2005). The analytic sample consisted of two groups of parents, who completed the cognitive battery, the interview, and the mail-back survey: 128 parents who had children with childhood-onset disabilities and 512 matched comparison parents who had only nondisabled children.
resultsAge differences in episodic memory were more pronounced among mothers of children with disabilities than among mothers with nondisabled children, especially among mothers with higher levels of negative parenting experience. In contrast, there were no interaction effects of parenting status, age, and negative parenting experience among fathers. DISCUSSION: The results show that parenting children with disabilities over a prolonged period of time jeopardizes cognitive function (especially memory) among older mothers, possibly via the mechanism of heightened parenting stress due to higher levels of negative parenting experience.
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