Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles Article Faculty Publications -Articles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Predictors of behavioral and emotional issues in children involved in custody disputes: A cross sectional study in urban Bengaluru Subject The topic of the resource Child Custody Disputes; Child Mental health; Divorce; India; SDQ Description An account of the resource Background: The increasing rates of divorce in urban India has led to the subsequent parental battle for the child's custody. This paper discusses the behavioral and emotional issues of these children in relation to their psychosocial environmental factors and other relevant socio-demographic variables. Methods: We used samples from parent interviews concerning 52 children aged 717-years-old, involved in child custody cases in the Family court of urban Bengaluru. The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire was used to measure response variables of behavioral and emotional issues in these children. Predictor models of quantile and multiple linear regression were used to assess the influence of psychosocial environmental factors and socio-demographic variables on the response variables. Results: The predictor models revealed that risk of child suffering emotional and behavioral issues increased with factors such as excessive parental control, change of academic environment, general unrest at school, frequency of child's court visit, child's visitation of non-custodian parent on occasions and vacations, and negatively altered family relationship. The model however intriguingly showed that residing in nuclear household rather than with their grandparents in a non-nuclear household, decreased the risk of mental health issues in these children. Conclusions: This study is a novel attempt to understand the influence of the psychosocial issues on the child's mental health in the context of custody cases in India. Despite the minimum sample size, the findings imply that family-based intervention is the need of the hour in these cases. The implications for clinical practice and research are discussed. 2021 Elsevier B.V. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nambiar P.P.; Jangam K.V.; Jose A.; Seshadri S.P. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Asian Journal of Psychiatry, Vol-67 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Elsevier B.V. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102930" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102930</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85120302855&amp;doi=10.1016%2Fj.ajp.2021.102930&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=b427065c75a430aff4f6040947cb83d4" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85120302855&amp;doi=10.1016%2fj.ajp.2021.102930&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=b427065c75a430aff4f6040947cb83d4</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Restricted Access Relation A related resource ISSN: 18762018; PubMed ID: 34861567 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Article Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Nambiar P.P., Department of Psychiatric Social Work, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, India; Jangam K.V., Department of Psychiatric Social Work, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, India; Jose A., Department of Statistics, Christ University, Bengaluru, India; Seshadri S.P., Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, India