Parental Stress and Socioemotional Functioning of Young Children Experiencing Homelessness

Parents experiencing homelessness experience high levels of stress that compromise parenting quality, rendering them less effective in protecting their children from developing socio-emotional problems. The transactional relation between parenting stress and child socio-emotional functioning is examined. Parenting stress and child socioemotional functioning exert bidirectional influences over an eight-month timespan.