Trial reportJournal of abnormal child psychology2019
Offspring Personality Mediates the Association between Maternal Depression and Childhood Psychopathology.
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- Characteristics of maternal depression and children's functioning: A meta-analytic review.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2022Pooled it
- Parenting as a Mediator of Associations between Depression in Mothers and Children's Functioning: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2020Pooled it
- Intergenerational transmission of depression: Testing a comprehensive set of putative mediators.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2025Article
- Associations between Parental Depression and Anxiety and Children's Internalizing and Externalizing Problems: Investigating Expressed Emotion as a Transdiagnostic Mechanism.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Longitudinal pathways between maternal depression, parenting behaviors, and early childhood development: a mediation analysis.International journal of behavioral development · 2025Article
- Maternal and Child Depressive Symptoms in a Sample of Low-income Families of Color: The Mediating Role of Child Adaptability.Child psychiatry and human development · 2024Article
- Intergenerational transmission of depressive and anxiety disorders: Mediation via youth personality.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2022Article
- Prenatal and postnatal maternal distress and offspring temperament: A longitudinal study.Journal of psychiatric research · 2022Article
- Caregiver Psychological Distress Predicts Temperament and Social-Emotional Outcomes in Infants with Autism Traits.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2021Article
- Hair cortisol in pregnancy interacts with maternal depressive symptoms to predict maternal disrupted interaction with her infant at 4 months.Developmental psychobiology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Offspring of mothers diagnosed with major depression are at increased risk for a wide range of psychological problems. Previous research has shown that individual differences in personality development can be informative for predicting risk and resilience to psychopathology, especially within at-risk populations. In the present study, we examined whether individual differences in offspring personality development during early to middle childhood could account for the association between maternal depression and offspring behavior problems later in childhood. Participants included 64 offspring of mothers diagnosed with major depression and 68 offspring of healthy comparison mothers. Personality was assessed via parent report at ages 3, 4, 5, and 9. Offspring internalizing and externalizing symptoms were assessed at age 9 via parent and teacher report. Results of latent growth curve models indicated that offspring Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, and Agreeableness mediated the link between early maternal depression and later childhood behavior problems, though results varied across maternal and teacher reports. Findings suggest that individual differences in youth personality and personality development are important predictors of emerging psychopathology among offspring of mothers diagnosed with depression.
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