Maternal and paternal psychopathological risk in children with Non Organic Failure to Thrive
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Psychiatry and Psychology
- Keywords
- Maternal psychopathology, Fathers, Internalizing and externalizing problems, childhood, eating disorders
- Copyright
- © 2015 Cerniglia et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2015. Maternal and paternal psychopathological risk in children with Non Organic Failure to Thrive. PeerJ PrePrints 3:e1162v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1162v1
Abstract
Recent researches have underlined that maternal psychopathology can be considered as a crucial risk factor for the development and maintaining of several emotional behavioural problems in children. While several researches have dealt prominently with maternal psychopathological risk and with their outcomes on NOFTT, limited attention has been given in literature to fathers’ involvement in caregiving and to their psychological profiles, while this issue may represent a significant risk and/or protective factor. The present longitudinal study is aimed to further elaborate on the impact of the maternal psychological functioning on the adaptation of the child between the first and second childhood, focusing also on the paternal involvement in caregiving.
Author Comment
This is a first draft of the research paper. Some sections, such Abstract, references and others, are not complete. Data analyses are being revised.The main aims of the paper were: 1) Evaluating the trend of psychological profile of the mothers and fathers in three different assessment sessions; 2) Evaluating the child malnutrition and emotional/adaptive profile described by mothers and fathers in three different assessment sessions; 3) Evaluating the impact of the specific maternal and paternal profile risks related to child malnutrition and to the presence of maladaptive pattern among emotional/adaptive functioning variables defined by both mothers and fathers in three different assessment sessions.