Intergenerational effects of maternal PTSD: Roles of parenting stress and child sex.

Parental posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) increases children's risk for emotional and behavioral problems. We examined parenting stress and parenting behavior quality as mediators of the relation between maternal PTSD and problematic child behaviors in a sample at high risk for trauma exposure. We also examined whether child sex moderated this association.Participants were 141 African American mother-child dyads (children aged 8-12). Mothers...