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Bad Kid, Bad Parents, Bad Genes, or All of the above?: Understanding How Adults Define Children's Mental Health Problems
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The last decade has witnessed an outpouring of interest in children’s emotional and behavioral problems from media outlets, the medical profession, and allied mental health disciplines. Little scholarly attention has been given to how the diverse claims of these stakeholders are used by adults to construct a lay understanding of children’s mental health problems. Drawing on social constructionist and claims-making traditions, we analyze the competing frameworks that emerge in public discourse on children’s emotional and behavioral problems. Specifically, using vignette-based data from the 2002 General Social Survey’s National Stigma Study – Children Module, we conduct a latent class analysis of causal attributions for three types of childhood problems: daily trouble, ADHD, and depression. We then evaluate the predictors of those attributions, including characteristics of the child, whether respondents label the problem a mental illness, and respondents’ socio-demographic characteristics. We find that adults construct children’s mental health problems in a manner consistent with public frameworks. And, while socio-demographic characteristics do little to predict group differences, several interesting patterns emerge with regard to the characteristics of the child.
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Fettes, Danielle. and McLeod, Jane. "Bad Kid, Bad Parents, Bad Genes, or All of the above?: Understanding How Adults Define Children's Mental Health Problems" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 12, 2005 Online <PDF>. 2008-08-15 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p22772_index.html>

Fettes, D. L. and McLeod, J. D. (2005, Aug) "Bad Kid, Bad Parents, Bad Genes, or All of the above?: Understanding How Adults Define Children's Mental Health Problems" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <PDF> Retrieved 2008-08-15 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p22772_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: The last decade has witnessed an outpouring of interest in children’s emotional and behavioral problems from media outlets, the medical profession, and allied mental health disciplines. Little scholarly attention has been given to how the diverse claims of these stakeholders are used by adults to construct a lay understanding of children’s mental health problems. Drawing on social constructionist and claims-making traditions, we analyze the competing frameworks that emerge in public discourse on children’s emotional and behavioral problems. Specifically, using vignette-based data from the 2002 General Social Survey’s National Stigma Study – Children Module, we conduct a latent class analysis of causal attributions for three types of childhood problems: daily trouble, ADHD, and depression. We then evaluate the predictors of those attributions, including characteristics of the child, whether respondents label the problem a mental illness, and respondents’ socio-demographic characteristics. We find that adults construct children’s mental health problems in a manner consistent with public frameworks. And, while socio-demographic characteristics do little to predict group differences, several interesting patterns emerge with regard to the characteristics of the child.

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