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The effect of maternal depression on mental representations and child negative affect
- Source :
- J Affect Disord
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Background Maternal depression is a widely recognized public health concern with significant implications for child functioning, including the development of negative child affect and risk for later depression. Negative mental representations may partially account for the association between maternal depression and child negative affect. Methods The effect of depression on low-income mothers’ representations of their child, self, and mother was assessed via Expressed Emotion (EE) during Five-Minute Speech Samples. Direct and indirect pathways between maternal depression, EE, and child negative affect were examined. Mothers (M = 24 years old) who had experienced a major depressive episode (n = 144) since child's birth, non-depressed comparison mothers (n = 62), and their children participated. Results Examination of between-group differences revealed that depressed mothers had higher levels of overall self EE. Trend results also suggest depressed mothers may have higher overall EE toward their children and their own mothers. Novel coding systems for EE toward self (Identity and Depressotypic Cognitions) and EE toward mother (Source of Concrete Support and Resolution of Past Adversity) were also developed and tested. A significant indirect relation was found between maternal baseline depression and child negative affect at 26 months via the mother's level of EE-Criticism of her mother. Limitations Certain EE subcodes may need to be adapted for young children and high-risk, low-income participants. Conclusions : Findings highlights the importance of relational interventions that focus on maternal representations for women with depression and their children.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Psychological intervention
Mothers
Affect (psychology)
Article
Child of Impaired Parents
medicine
Expressed emotion
Humans
Association (psychology)
Major depressive episode
Child
Poverty
Depression (differential diagnoses)
Negativism
Depressive Disorder, Major
Public health
Cognition
Mother-Child Relations
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Affect
Expressed Emotion
Child, Preschool
Female
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15732517
- Volume :
- 261
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of affective disorders
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5cf44a62311a5f085eb7643860e2da7f