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ArticleChild and adolescent psychiatry and mental health2025

Early socioeconomic conditions to children's trait resilience: longitudinal mediation effects of mothers' and fathers' parenting.

Meryl Yu, Germaine Y Q Tng, Zhan Lin, Helen Chen, Johan Gunnar Eriksson, Yap Seng Chong, Henning Tiemeier, Peipei Setoh

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Meryl YuDepartment of Psychology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Germaine Y Q TngDivision of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 48 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639818, Singapore.
Zhan LinDivision of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 48 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639818, Singapore.
Helen ChenDepartment of Psychological Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
Johan Gunnar ErikssonA*STAR Institute for Human Development and Potential, Singapore, Singapore.
Yap Seng ChongDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Henning TiemeierDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Peipei SetohDivision of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 48 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639818, Singapore. psetoh@ntu.edu.sg.

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Ministry of Education - Singapore MOE2019-SSHR-005Ministry of Education - Singapore RG126/23Ministry of Education - Singapore RG39/22National Research Foundation (NRF) MOH-000504National Research Foundation (NRF) OF-LCGNational University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine NUHSRO/2021/093/NUSMed/13/LOA
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Abstract

backgroundTrait resilience is a well-established protective factor against diverse social-emotional challenges and stress-associated psychiatric disorders. Its cultivation may thus be exceptionally critical for children exposed to early financial adversity, which has been demonstrated to confer elevated vulnerabilities to psychosocial maladjustment. Grounded in the Family Stress Model with a focus on an understudied Asian population, this longitudinal study investigates how early family socioeconomic disadvantage indirectly shapes children's trait resilience through key parenting dimensions-warmth, rejection, and autonomy support-by both mothers and fathers.

methodsThis longitudinal study was embedded in a multi-ethnic, pre-birth cohort involving Singaporean families (57.3% Chinese, 30.0% Malay, 12.7% Indian), comprising 430 biological mothers (M

resultsChildren from families with lower socioeconomic status during early childhood (indexed by lower levels of mothers' and fathers' educational attainment, and household income) demonstrated lower trait resilience in late childhood. Parallel mediation analyses with 5,000 bootstrapped samples revealed that maternal and paternal educational attainment influenced trait resilience in late childhood via greater maternal and paternal rejection during middle childhood, respectively. Meanwhile, the relationship of household income with children's trait resilience was mediated by lower levels of maternal warmth only. No significant indirect effects of both parents' autonomy support were observed.

conclusionsMaternal and paternal parenting practices play salient roles in nurturing children's trait resilience, in part substantiating the cultural validity of the Family Stress Model within a Southeast Asian family ecology. Specifically, family interventions could seek to ameliorate both maternal and paternal rejection, as well as enhance maternal warmth behaviors to mitigate the influence of socioeconomic disadvantage on children's trait resilience.

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ChildhoodCultureFathersMothersParentingResilienceSocioeconomic status

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PMCPMC12604427

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