ArticleInfant behavior & development2017
Examining pathways linking maternal depressive symptoms in infancy to children's behavior problems: The role of maternal unresponsiveness and negative behaviors.
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- Maternal alcohol dependence symptoms, maternal insensitivity to children's distress, and young children's blunted emotional reactivity.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Language use in depressed and non-depressed mothers and their adolescent offspring.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Article
- Maternal-Infant Attachment and its Relationships with Postpartum Depression, Anxiety, Affective Instability, Stress, and Social Support in a Canadian Community Sample.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2023Article
- Differential effects of prenatal psychological distress and positive mental health on offspring socioemotional development from infancy to adolescence: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Review
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- Language Use in Mother-Adolescent Dyadic Interaction: Preliminary Results.International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction and workshops : [proceedings]. ACII (Conference) · 2022Article
- Maternal Interaction With Infants Among Women at Elevated Risk for Postpartum Depression.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Affective and Autonomic Reactivity During Parent-Child Interactions in Depressed and Non-Depressed Mothers and Their Adolescent Offspring.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2021Article
- Psychobiological markers of allostatic load in depressed and nondepressed mothers and their adolescent offspring.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2021Article
- Assessing longitudinal pathways between maternal depressive symptoms, parenting self-esteem and infant temperament.PloS one · 2019Article
- Maternal Interactive Behaviours in Parenting Children with Williams Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Relations with Emotional/Behavioural Problems.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2019Article
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Abstract
The extent to which maternal depressive symptoms in the first 6 months of life is linked with internalizing and externalizing behaviors in childhood through specific insensitive maternal behaviors (unresponsive and overtly negative behaviors) was examined in a sample of 259 mother-infant dyads. In addition, the extent to which these paths were moderated by infant negative emotionality was also examined. Maternal depressive symptoms were assessed prenatally and when infants were 6 months and 2 years old. Maternal unresponsive and overtly negative behaviors and infant negative emotionality were observed when infants were 6 months old. Mothers reported on infant's internalizing and externalizing behaviors when infants were 2 years old. Maternal depressive symptoms were directly associated with higher internalizing behaviors; this path was not mediated by maternal behaviors. Depressive symptoms were unrelated to externalizing symptoms. Infant negative emotionality did not moderate these effects, but was related positively to overtly negative maternal behaviors, and temperament interacted with maternal depressive symptoms to predict unresponsive maternal behaviors. Results suggest that early maternal depressive symptoms, infant negative emotionality, and negative maternal behavior pose risk for infants' later internalizing behaviors, but the proposed moderated mediation model was not supported.
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