SynthesisEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2024
Parent, child, and situational factors associated with parenting stress: a systematic review.
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99 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- What Makes Parents of Young Children Stressed? A Systematic Review of Quantitative Studies.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Pooled it
- Three-Stage Care Experiences and Needs of Parents With Children in NICU: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis.Nursing open · 2026Pooled it
- Parental Stress and Well-Being: A Meta-analysis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2025Pooled it
- Why do students drop out of regular sport in late adolescent? The experience of a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- The Efficacy of a Resilience-Enhancement Program for Mothers Based on Emotion Regulation: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Japan.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- Transactional Pathways from Early Externalizing Behavior to Adolescent Delinquency: The Roles of Father Engagement and Parenting Aggravation.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- Maternal posttraumatic stress symptoms, parenting stress, and child psychological and cognitive outcomes among Syrian refugee mother-child dyads in Türkiye: a mixed-methods study.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Testing a Developmental Cascade Model from Prenatal Maternal Emotion Dysregulation to Toddler Behavior Dysregulation Through Postnatal Parenting Stress and Infant Physiology.Journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Maternal mental health and its influence on children's early development: Evidence from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.Infant mental health journal · 2026Article
- Parenting stress and work-family balance as determinants of parent-child relationship quality in dual-earner families in Türkiye.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Perinatal predictors of parenting stress trajectories during the first 3 years of parenthood: A Maternal and Child Health Handbook cohort study.JCPP advances · 2026Article
- Psychological Flexibility as a Mediator Between Parenting Stress and Depression Among Chinese Primary Caregivers of Infants: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Article
- From Foundational Caregiving to Maternal Eudaimonic Well-Being: The Role of Parenting and Interaction Competence.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Resilience Within Families of Young Children with ASD.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Mother-Adolescent Discrepancies in Psychological Adjustment Using Latent Profile Analysis: Longitudinal Predictors of Reporter-Specific Relationship Quality.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- Bidirectional relationships of parenting stress, media use for behavior management, and children's behavior problems from 9 to 30 months.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- Caregiver distress explains links between objective and subjective socioeconomic status and adolescent internalizing and externalizing behaviors.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2026Article
- Parenting Stress, Parenting Self-Efficacy and Dyadic Coping in Parents of Preterm Infants in China: A Dyadic Analysis.Nursing open · 2026Observational
- Everyday maternal sensitivity to distress is dynamic and systematically varies across contexts.Child development · 2026Article
- Parenting health literacy and nurturing care ability: the mediating role of parenting stress.BMJ paediatrics open · 2026Article
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Abstract
Parenting stress has been related to adverse health outcomes in parents, children, and their families. This systematic review aimed to provide an overview of parental, child, and situational factors related to parenting stress in mothers and fathers. We searched Embase, Medline Epub (Ovid), PsychInfo (Ovid), Web of Science, and Google scholar for studies published between January 1980 and May 2021 evaluating the association between at least one factor and parenting stress. Studies were included only if they reported the association in a general population sample of mothers and fathers with children aged 0-12 years. The parent-child relationship model by Abidin guided the data synthesis. Quality of the evidence was assessed using the Standard Quality Assessment Criteria for Evaluating Primary Research Papers from a variety of fields. In total, 29 studies were included with excellent quality (55%), good (31%), and adequate (14%) methodological quality. There was evidence of an association between maternal depression, child overall problems, child externalizing and internalizing problems, social support, maternal educational level and maternal parenting stress. Evidence was inconsistent for an association between maternal anxiety, family income and maternal parenting stress. There was no evidence of an association for maternal age, child sex and maternal parenting stress. Several modifiable factors (i.e., parental depression and social support) were identified that might guide the development of preventive interventions. Future research should employ longitudinal study designs evaluating protective and risk factors and the pathways that lead to parenting stress, among both fathers and mothers.
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