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Assessing longitudinal pathways between maternal depressive symptoms, parenting self-esteem and infant temperament.
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- Cure for tantrums? Longitudinal associations between parental digital emotion regulation and children's self-regulatory skills.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- A dynamic perspective on depressive symptoms during the first year postpartum.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2023Article
- Birth-related posttraumatic stress disorder and negative childbirth experience related to maternal functioning among adolescent mothers: a cross-sectional study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- Mothers' Emotion Regulation and Negative Affect in Infants: The Role of Self-Efficacy and Knowledge of Parenting Practices.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Parenting self-efficacy instruments for parents of infants and toddlers: A review.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2022Review
- Maternal depressive symptoms and early childhood temperament before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.Infant and child development · 2022Article
- Body Appreciation, Depressive Symptoms, and Self-Esteem in Pregnant and Postpartum Brazilian Women.Frontiers in global women's health · 2022Article
- Associations Between Mode of Birth and Neuropsychological Development in Children Aged 4 Years: Results from a Birth Cohort Study.Child psychiatry and human development · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundPrevious studies of relations between parenting self-concepts, parental adjustment and child temperament have been ambiguous regarding the direction of influence; and have rarely followed families from pregnancy through the first year of life. The current study examines change and stability in maternal depressive symptoms, parenting competences and child temperament through the perinatal period until nine months postpartum.
methodsCzech mothers (N = 282) participated at three time points: the third trimester of pregnancy (Time 1), six weeks (Time 2) and nine months postpartum (Time 3). Questionnaire data concerned depressive symptoms (T1, T2, T3), maternal parenting self-esteem (T1, T2) and sense of competence (T3), and child temperament (T2, T3). A path model was used to examine concurrent and longitudinal relations between these variables.
resultsThe analyses indicated longitudinal stability of all constructs, as well as concurrent relations between them. Longitudinal relations supported child-to-parent, rather than parent-to-child, effects: child difficult temperament predicted decreases in perceived maternal parenting competences, but maternal variables did not predict change in infant temperament. In addition, we observed weak mutual relations between maternal depression levels and parenting competences, such that maternal depression diminished perceived parenting competences that in turn contributed to higher levels of depression.
conclusionMothers' confidence in their ability to parent is influenced by their experience with a difficult infant and by their depressive symptoms during the child's first year of life. Depressive symptoms are, in turn, aggravated by mothers' low perceived competences in the parenting role.
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