SynthesisJournal of affective disorders2022
Maternal depressive symptoms and maternal child-directed speech: A systematic review.
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- Maternal Linguistic Input to Infants Born to Mothers With and Without Postpartum Psychosis and Infant Language Skills: A Preliminary Study.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2025Article
- Maternal depressive symptoms in childhood and offspring brain cortical and subcortical volumetric change: A repeated imaging study from age 4-10 years.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2025Article
- Infant-Directed Speech to Preterm Infants during the First Year Postpartum: The Influence of Preterm Birth Weight and Maternal Parenting Stress.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Infant-Directed Speech to 3-Month-Old Severe Preterm Infants: The Influence of Birth Weight and Maternal Depressive Symptoms.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Maternal and paternal depressive symptoms and parental vocalisation behaviours in infancy: findings from UK-based birth cohort.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on infant development and maternal mental health in the first 2 years of life.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies · 2023Article
- First Sounds of Emotion: Newborns' Sensitivity to Emotional Prosody and Its Relation With Maternal Depressive Traits.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesArticle
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- Playful activities mitigate relations between parental mental health difficulties and child verbal outcomes.Child developmentArticle
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Abstract
backgroundUp to 1 in 5 children are exposed to maternal depressive symptoms. Children exposed to maternal depressive symptoms have poorer language skills than children not exposed to maternal depressive symptoms. Due to the crucial role of children's language skills in school readiness and academic achievement, it is imperative to understand the factors that underlie the relation between maternal depressive symptoms and children's language skills. Previous reviews have examined the mechanistic role of social-pragmatic features of mother-child interactions. However, the literature on the relation between maternal depressive symptoms and data-providing aspects of mother-child interactions, including child-directed speech, has yet to be consolidated. In this systematic review, we present maternal child-directed speech as a potential pathway through which maternal depressive symptoms influence children's language skills.
methodsFollowing PRISMA guidelines, three database searches produced 546 articles related to maternal depressive symptoms, child-directed speech, and children's language skills, ten of which examined the relation between maternal depressive symptoms and child-directed speech.
resultsFindings revealed that increases in maternal depressive symptoms may be associated with decreases in amount of child-directed speech but not necessarily with decreases in the complexity of child-directed speech. LIMITATIONS: The studies in this review varied in sample size, the inclusion of important sociodemographic factors, and the operationalization of depression and child-directed speech, thereby limiting conclusions, especially about whether maternal depressive symptoms are associated with the complexity of child-directed speech.
conclusionsThis review has implications for prevention and intervention efforts aimed at optimizing children's language skills; child-directed speech is modifiable, and mothers experiencing depressive symptoms may benefit from resources encouraging rich child-directed speech.
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