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Maternal drug abuse versus maternal depression: Vulnerability and resilience among school-age and adolescent offspring

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2007

SUNIYA S. LUTHAR  and
CHRIS C. SEXTON
SUNIYA S. LUTHAR
Affiliation:
Teachers College, Columbia University
CHRIS C. SEXTON
Affiliation:
Teachers College, Columbia University
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Abstract

In this study of 360 low-income mother–child dyads, our primary goal was to disentangle risks linked with commonly co-occurring maternal diagnoses: substance abuse and affective/anxiety disorders. Variable- and person-based analyses suggest that, at least through children's early adolescence, maternal drug use is no more inimical for them than is maternal depression. A second goal was to illuminate vulnerability and protective processes linked with mothers' everyday functioning, and results showed that negative parenting behaviors were linked with multiple adverse child outcomes. Conversely, the other parenting dimensions showed more domain specificity; parenting stress was linked with children's lifetime diagnoses, and limit setting and closeness with children's externalizing problems and everyday competence, respectively. Results are discussed in terms of implications for resilience theory, interventions, and social policy.Preparation of this manuscript was funded in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health (RO1-DA10726, RO1-DA11498, and R01-DA14385).

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Development and Psychopathology , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 205 - 225
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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