Parental Mental Health Problems
Dimension 758 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Parental Mental Health Problems measures the extent to which an expression refers to mental health difficulties, psychiatric conditions, self-harm, or serious emotional disturbance in a parent. It encompasses both broad references to a parent being affected by mental health problems and specific named conditions such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, psychosis, and self-harm.
evidence final name · Mum Dad
Minimal Parental Mental Health Problems
Expressions activating this band contain little or no clear reference to a parent's mental health problems and instead focus on family relationships, caregiving presence, medical status, developmental history, or adverse experiences not framed as parental psychiatric difficulty.
Low Parental Mental Health Problems
Expressions activating this band refer to mental health problems in the family context, but the parent link is indirect, mixed with other health and life-history content, or framed as a broad possibility rather than a specific parental psychiatric condition.
Moderate Parental Mental Health Problems
Expressions activating this band directly identify a parent as having experienced mental health problems or a named psychiatric condition such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, psychosis, or self-harm.
High Parental Mental Health Problems
Expressions activating this band present parental mental health problems as a clear and salient condition affecting the parent, typically in concise statements that foreground the parent's impairment or psychiatric burden.
Severe Parental Mental Health Problems
Expressions activating this band indicate highly salient, serious, or pervasive parental mental health problems, with cues of marked impairment, ongoing distress, or severe disruption in the parent's functioning.
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Minimal Mum Dad: Content characterized by hit, threaten, privacy, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect mum dad at this level.
Emerging Mum Dad: Content characterized by insurance, mama, debonair, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect mum dad at this level.
Elevated Mum Dad: Content characterized by mum, mumbo, mom, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect mum dad at this level.
Severe Mum Dad: Content characterized by mum, mumy, harming, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect mum dad at this level.