ReviewClinical child and family psychology review2017
Exposure to Parents' Negative Emotions as a Developmental Pathway to the Family Aggregation of Depression and Anxiety in the First Year of Life.
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- Parent-adolescent intergenerational transmission of distress: the roles of family climate, adolescents' self-compassion and mindfulness.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Associations Among EEG Aperiodic Slope, Infant Temperament, and Maternal Anxiety/Depression Symptoms in Infancy.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
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- Family risk factors in the acquisition of anxiety: Behavioral inhibition and Social Fear Learning from Parents.Advances in psychiatry and behavioral health · 2024Article
- Impact of trajectories of maternal postpartum depression on infants' socioemotional development.Pediatric research · 2024Article
- Parental Burnout and Prosocial Behavior among Chinese Adolescents: The Role of Empathy.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Parental Depression Symptoms and Internalizing Mental Health Problems in Autistic Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
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- The effect of perinatal interventions on parent anxiety, infant socio-emotional development and parent-infant relationship outcomes: A systematic review.JCPP advances · 2022Article
- Maternal symptoms of depression and anxiety during the postpartum period moderate infants' neural response to emotional faces of their mother and of female strangers.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Mental Health of Parents and Their Children: A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Parents' Negative Affect on Adolescents' Pathological Gaming.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Mental health service use among pregnant and early postpartum women.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2022Article
- Parent-to-Child Anxiety Transmission Through Dyadic Social Dynamics: A Dynamic Developmental Model.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2022Review
- From parents to children and back again: Bidirectional processes in the transmission and development of depression and anxiety.Depression and anxiety · 2021Article
- Caregiver Psychological Distress Predicts Temperament and Social-Emotional Outcomes in Infants with Autism Traits.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Depression and anxiety load in families. In the present study, we focus on exposure to parental negative emotions in first postnatal year as a developmental pathway to early parent-to-child transmission of depression and anxiety. We provide an overview of the little research available on the links between infants' exposure to negative emotion and infants' emotional development in this developmentally sensitive period, and highlight priorities for future research. To address continuity between normative and maladaptive development, we discuss exposure to parental negative emotions in infants of parents with as well as without depression and/or anxiety diagnoses. We focus on infants' emotional expressions in everyday parent-infant interactions, and on infants' attention to negative facial expressions as early indices of emotional development. Available evidence suggests that infants' emotional expressions echo parents' expressions and reactions in everyday interactions. In turn, infants exposed more to negative emotions from the parent seem to attend less to negative emotions in others' facial expressions. The links between exposure to parental negative emotion and development hold similarly in infants of parents with and without depression and/or anxiety diagnoses. Given its potential links to infants' emotional development, and to later psychological outcomes in children of parents with depression and anxiety, we conclude that early exposure to parental negative emotions is an important developmental mechanism that awaits further research. Longitudinal designs that incorporate the study of early exposure to parents' negative emotion, socio-emotional development in infancy, and later psychological functioning while considering other genetic and biological vulnerabilities should be prioritized in future research.
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