Table 2.

Associations of parental psychopathology and family composition with family dysfunction, parenting stress and anxiety scores

	Family dysfunction	Parenting stress	Anxiety 10–12 years	Anxiety 12–14 years
Parental mental health
Lifetime internalising	0.13***	0.21***	0.07*	0.04
Lifetime externalising	0.09***	0.12***	0.02	−0.02
Current depression	0.29***	0.39***	0.09***	0.05*
Current anxiety	0.22***	0.29***	0.10***	0.07**
Current stress	0.28***	0.46***	0.10***	0.09**
Family composition
Number of children	0.03	0.02	0.05*	0.03
Number of parents	0.15***	0.32***	0.01	0.01

Values of parental mental health are Pearson correlations; values for number of children are Spearman correlations; and values of number of parents are the differences in scores for family dysfunction, parenting stress and anxiety scores and level of significance for t test comparing single parent households with two-parent households

* P < 0.05; ** P < 0.001; *** P < 0.0001