A longitudinal investigation of the relationships among parental life stress, parental self-esteem, marital satisfaction, and parental depression
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The Department of Human Development and Family Studies focuses on the interactions among individuals, families, and their resources and environments throughout their lifespans. It consists of three majors: Child, Adult, and Family Services (preparing students to work for agencies serving children, youth, adults, and families); Family Finance, Housing, and Policy (preparing students for work as financial counselors, insurance agents, loan-officers, lobbyists, policy experts, etc); and Early Childhood Education (preparing students to teach and work with young children and their families).
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The Department of Human Development and Family Studies was formed in 1991 from the merger of the Department of Family Environment and the Department of Child Development.
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1991-present
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- College of Human Sciences (parent college)
- Department of Child Development (predecessor)
- Department of Family Environment (predecessor)
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The present study is a two-year investigation to examine the relationships among parental life stress, parental self esteem, parental marital satisfaction, and parental depression both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Participants are married, middle-aged parents from the midwest farm belt;Multiple regression was conducted to analyze the data. The cross-sectional results indicated that parental life stress increased parental depression and decreased parental self-esteem and parental marital satisfaction. Parental self-esteem and parental marital satisfaction did function as mediating variables between parental life stress and parental depression. Self-esteem was associated with marital satisfaction for mothers but not for fathers;The results of longitudinal data analyses did not show any strong relationships between wave one variables and wave two variables except in the case of auto-regressions. A major limitation of the present study is that all the information was based on self-reports.