The interplay between child and maternal health: reciprocal relationships and cumulative disadvantage during childhood and adolescence.

ABSTRACT: While many studies use parental socioeconomic status and health to predict children's health, this study examines the interplay over time between child and maternal health across childhood and adolescence. Using data from women in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979 cohort and their children (N = 2,225), autoregressive cross-lagged models demonstrate a reciprocal relationship between child activity limitations and maternal health limitations in direct effects of child activity limitations on maternal health limitations two years later and vice versa-net of a range of health-relevant time-varying and time-invariant covariates. Furthermore, there are indirect effects of child activity limitations on subsequent maternal health limitations and indirect effects of maternal health limi

SUBMITTER: Garbarski D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4318683 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature