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School connectedness as a protective factor between childhood adversity and adolescent mental health outcomes. 学校联系是童年逆境与青少年心理健康结果之间的保护因素。

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Development and Psychopathology Pub Date : 2024-11-07 DOI: 10.1017/S0954579424001184

Devin Diggs, Emre Deniz, Umar Toseeb

{"title":"School connectedness as a protective factor between childhood adversity and adolescent mental health outcomes.","authors":"Devin Diggs, Emre Deniz, Umar Toseeb","doi":"10.1017/S0954579424001184","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0954579424001184","url":null,"abstract":"School connectedness may offset mental health risks associated with childhood adversity. The present study examined the potential protective effects of school connectedness against childhood adversity when predicting adolescent mental health outcomes in 9,964 individuals (51% female, 81% white) from the Millennium Cohort Study. Structural equation models were fitted to examine the longitudinal relationships between childhood adversity, school connectedness, and adolescent mental health. Childhood adversity was a risk factor, predicting greater internalizing and externalizing problems and lower levels of positive mental health. School connectedness was a promotive factor as it predicted fewer mental health problems and greater positive mental health. Furthermore, school connectedness at age 11 was protective against childhood adversity when predicting internalizing and externalizing problems at age 14. That is, students with a history of adversity who felt more connected to school were less likely to exhibit internalizing and externalizing symptoms than those who felt less connected to school. Only school connectedness at age 11 was protective against childhood adversity, indicating that feeling connected to school at younger ages may disrupt processes linking childhood adversity to adolescent mental health. Schools should foster students' feelings of connectedness to protect vulnerable individuals and benefit all pupils' mental health.","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142589749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Timing sensitivity of prenatal cortisol exposure and neurocognitive development. 产前皮质醇暴露与神经认知发育的时间敏感性

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Development and Psychopathology Pub Date : 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1017/S0954579424001287

Sean R Womack, Hannah R Murphy, Molly S Arnold, Zoe T Duberstein, Meghan Best, Xing Qiu, Richard K Miller, Emily S Barrett, Thomas G O'Connor

{"title":"Timing sensitivity of prenatal cortisol exposure and neurocognitive development.","authors":"Sean R Womack, Hannah R Murphy, Molly S Arnold, Zoe T Duberstein, Meghan Best, Xing Qiu, Richard K Miller, Emily S Barrett, Thomas G O'Connor","doi":"10.1017/S0954579424001287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579424001287","url":null,"abstract":"Prenatal glucocorticoid exposure has been negatively associated with infant neurocognitive outcomes. However, questions about developmental timing effects across gestation remain. Participants were 253 mother-child dyads who participated in a prospective cohort study recruited in the first trimester of pregnancy. Diurnal cortisol was measured in maternal saliva samples collected across a single day within each trimester of pregnancy. Children (49.8% female) completed the Bayley Mental Development Scales, Third Edition at 6, 12, and 24 months and completed three observational executive function tasks at 24 months. Structural equation models adjusting for sociodemographic covariates were used to test study hypotheses. There was significant evidence for timing sensitivity. First-trimester diurnal cortisol (area under the curve) was negatively associated with cognitive and language development at 12 months and poorer inhibition at 24 months. Second-trimester cortisol exposure was negatively associated with language scores at 24 months. Third-trimester cortisol positively predicted performance in shifting between task rules (set shifting) at 24 months. Associations were not reliably moderated by child sex. Findings suggest that neurocognitive development is sensitive to prenatal glucocorticoid exposure as early as the first trimester and underscore the importance of assessing developmental timing in research on prenatal exposures for child health outcomes.","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142581741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Family income and polygenic scores are independently but not interactively associated with cognitive performance among youth genetically similar to European reference populations. 在与欧洲参照人群基因相似的青少年中，家庭收入和多基因评分与认知能力有独立关联，但无相互作用。

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Development and Psychopathology Pub Date : 2024-11-05 DOI: 10.1017/S0954579424001573

S E Paul, N M Elsayed, S M C Colbert, R Bogdan, A S Hatoum, D M Barch

{"title":"Family income and polygenic scores are independently but not interactively associated with cognitive performance among youth genetically similar to European reference populations.","authors":"S E Paul, N M Elsayed, S M C Colbert, R Bogdan, A S Hatoum, D M Barch","doi":"10.1017/S0954579424001573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579424001573","url":null,"abstract":"Cognitive abilities are heritable and influenced by socioeconomic status (SES). It is critical to understand the association between SES and cognition beyond genetic propensity to inform potential benefits of SES-based interventions and to determine if such associations vary across (i) cognitive domains, (ii) facets of SES, and/or (iii) genetic propensity for different aspects of cognition. We examined the contributions of neighborhood socioeconomic advantage, family income, and polygenic scores (PGS) for domains of cognition (i.e., general cognitive ability, executive function, learning and memory, fluid reasoning) in a sample of children (ages 9-10; n = 5549) most genetically similar to reference populations from Europe. With some variability across cognitive outcomes, family income and PGS were independently significantly associated with cognitive performance. Within-sibling analyses revealed that cognitive PGS associations were predominantly driven by between-family effects suggestive of non-direct genetic mechanisms. These findings provide evidence that SES and genetic propensity to cognition have unique associations with cognitive performance in middle childhood. These results underscore the importance of environmental factors and genetic influences in the development of cognitive abilities and caution against overinterpreting associations with PGS of cognitive and educational outcomes as predominantly direct genetic effects.","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142575587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Self-injury and suicidal behaviors in high-risk adolescents: Distal predictors, proximal correlates, and interactive effects of impulsivity and emotion dysregulation. 高危青少年的自伤和自杀行为：远端预测因素、近端相关因素以及冲动和情绪失调的交互影响。

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Development and Psychopathology Pub Date : 2024-11-04 DOI: 10.1017/S0954579424001342

Amanda Thompson, Donna Ruch, Jeffrey A Bridge, Cynthia Fontanella, Theodore P Beauchaine

{"title":"Self-injury and suicidal behaviors in high-risk adolescents: Distal predictors, proximal correlates, and interactive effects of impulsivity and emotion dysregulation.","authors":"Amanda Thompson, Donna Ruch, Jeffrey A Bridge, Cynthia Fontanella, Theodore P Beauchaine","doi":"10.1017/S0954579424001342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579424001342","url":null,"abstract":"Suicide rates are rising among U.S. youth, yet our understanding of developmental mechanisms associated with increased suicide risk is limited. One high-risk pathway involves an interaction between heritable trait impulsivity and emotion dysregulation (ED). Together, these confer increased vulnerability to nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI), suicide ideation (SI), and suicide attempts (SAs). Previous work, however, has been limited to homogeneous samples. We extend the Impulsivity × ED hypothesis to a more diverse sample of adolescents (N = 344, ages 12-15 at Baseline, 107 males and 237 females) who were treated for major depression and assessed four times over two years. In multilevel models, the impulsivity × ED interaction was associated with higher levels and worse trajectories of NSSI, SI, and SAs. As expected, stressful life events were also associated with poorer trajectories for all outcomes, and NSSI was associated with future and concurrent SI and SAs. These findings extend one developmental pathway of risk for self-harming and suicidal behaviors to more diverse adolescents, with potential implications for prevention.","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142567819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A panel network approach of internalizing and externalizing problems in early childhood: Evidence from American and Chinese preschoolers. 幼儿期内化和外化问题的面板网络方法：来自美国和中国学龄前儿童的证据。

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Development and Psychopathology Pub Date : 2024-11-04 DOI: 10.1017/S0954579424001706

Hongting Chen, Yiji Wang

{"title":"A panel network approach of internalizing and externalizing problems in early childhood: Evidence from American and Chinese preschoolers.","authors":"Hongting Chen, Yiji Wang","doi":"10.1017/S0954579424001706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579424001706","url":null,"abstract":"Internalizing and externalizing problems tend to co-occur beginning in early childhood. However, the dynamic interplay of symptom-level internalizing and externalizing problems that may drive their co-occurrence is poorly understood. Within the frameworks of the Network Approaches to Psychopathology and the Developmental Cascade Perspective, this study used a panel network approach to examine how symptoms of internalizing and externalizing problems are related in early childhood both concurrently and longitudinally and whether the pattern may differ in American (N = 1,202) and Chinese (N = 180) preschoolers. Internalizing and externalizing problems were rated by mothers in two waves. Results from cross-sectional networks showed that the bridge symptoms underlying the co-occurrence of internalizing and externalizing problems were largely consistent in American and Chinese preschoolers (e.g., withdrawal, aggressive behavior, anxiety and depressive moods). Results from cross-lagged panel networks further showed that the co-occurrence was manifested by unidirectional relations from internalizing to subsequent externalizing symptoms in both American and Chinese preschoolers. The findings contribute needed cross-cultural evidence to better understand the co-occurrence of internalizing and externalizing problems and highlight the temporal heterogeneity of the symptom networks of internalizing and externalizing problems in early childhood.","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142567816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Prenatal maternal subjective distress predicts higher autistic-like traits in offspring: The Iowa Flood Study. 产前母亲的主观痛苦可预测后代较高的自闭症样特征：爱荷华洪水研究

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Development and Psychopathology Pub Date : 2024-10-30 DOI: 10.1017/S0954579424001494

Mylène Lapierre, Guillaume Elgbeili, David P Laplante, Michael W O'Hara, Bianca D'Antono, Suzanne King

{"title":"Prenatal maternal subjective distress predicts higher autistic-like traits in offspring: The Iowa Flood Study.","authors":"Mylène Lapierre, Guillaume Elgbeili, David P Laplante, Michael W O'Hara, Bianca D'Antono, Suzanne King","doi":"10.1017/S0954579424001494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579424001494","url":null,"abstract":"Autism spectrum disorder prevalence more than quadrupled in the United States between 2000 and 2020. Ice storm-related prenatal maternal stress (PNMS) predicts autistic-like trait severity in children exposed early in gestation. The objective was to determine the extent to which PNMS influences the severity and trajectory of autistic-like traits in prenatally flood-exposed children at ages 4-7 years and to test moderation by sex and gestational timing. Soon after the June 2008 floods in Iowa, USA, 268 women pregnant during the disaster were assessed for objective hardship, subjective distress, and cognitive appraisal of the experience. When their children were 4, 5½, and 7 years old, mothers completed the Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ) to assess their children's autistic-like traits; 137 mothers completed the SCQ for at least one age. The final longitudinal multilevel model showed that the greater the maternal subjective distress, the more severe the child's autistic-like traits, controlling for objective hardship. The effect of PNMS on rate of change was not significant, and there were no significant main effects or interactions involving sex or timing. Prenatal maternal subjective distress, but not objective hardship or cognitive appraisal, predicted more severe autistic-like traits at age 4, and this effect remained stable through age 7.","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142544239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Impacts of early life adversity on the neurocircuitry of emotional memory in children. 早期生活逆境对儿童情绪记忆神经回路的影响。

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Development and Psychopathology Pub Date : 2024-10-29 DOI: 10.1017/S0954579424001718

Katelyn I Oliver, Anais Stenson, Sanne J H van Rooij, Colin B Johnson, Timothy D Ely, Abigail Powers, Sean T Minton, Charis Wiltshire, Ye Ji Kim, Rebecca Hinrichs, Tanja Jovanovic, Jennifer S Stevens

{"title":"Impacts of early life adversity on the neurocircuitry of emotional memory in children.","authors":"Katelyn I Oliver, Anais Stenson, Sanne J H van Rooij, Colin B Johnson, Timothy D Ely, Abigail Powers, Sean T Minton, Charis Wiltshire, Ye Ji Kim, Rebecca Hinrichs, Tanja Jovanovic, Jennifer S Stevens","doi":"10.1017/S0954579424001718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579424001718","url":null,"abstract":"Similar to adults with posttraumatic stress disorder, children with early life adversity show bias in memory for negative emotional stimuli. However, it is not well understood how childhood adversity impacts mechanisms underlying emotional memory. N = 56 children (8-14 years, 48% female) reported on adverse experiences including potentially traumatic events and underwent fMRI while attending to emotionally pleasant, neutral, or negative images. Post-scan, participants completed a cued recall test to assess memory for these images. Emotional difference-in-memory (DM) scores were computed by subtracting negative or positive from neutral recall performance. All children showed enhancing effects of emotion on recall, with no effect of trauma load. However, children with less trauma showed a larger emotional DM for both positive and negative stimuli when amygdala or anterior hippocampal activity was higher. In contrast, highly trauma-exposed children demonstrated a lower emotional DM with greater amygdala or hippocampal activity. This suggested that alternative neural mechanisms might support emotional enhancement of encoding in children with greater trauma load. Whole-brain analyses revealed that right fusiform activity during encoding positively correlated with both trauma load and successful later recall of positive images. Therefore, highly trauma-exposed children may use alternative, potentially adaptive neural pathways via the ventral visual stream to encode positive emotional events.","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142521345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Prediction of depressive symptoms in young adults by polygenic score and childhood maltreatment: Results from a population-based birth cohort. 通过多基因评分和童年虐待来预测青少年的抑郁症状：基于人口的出生队列研究结果。

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Development and Psychopathology Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1017/S0954579424001688

Sara Scardera, Marie-Claude Geoffroy, Rachel Langevin, Lea C Perret, Delphine Collin-Vézina, Ivan Voronin, Jean-Philippe Gouin, Xiangfei Meng, Michel Boivin, Isabelle Ouellet-Morin

{"title":"Prediction of depressive symptoms in young adults by polygenic score and childhood maltreatment: Results from a population-based birth cohort.","authors":"Sara Scardera, Marie-Claude Geoffroy, Rachel Langevin, Lea C Perret, Delphine Collin-Vézina, Ivan Voronin, Jean-Philippe Gouin, Xiangfei Meng, Michel Boivin, Isabelle Ouellet-Morin","doi":"10.1017/S0954579424001688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579424001688","url":null,"abstract":"Childhood maltreatment is linked with later depressive symptoms, but not every maltreated child will experience symptoms later in life. Therefore, we investigate whether genetic predisposition for depression (i.e., polygenic score for depression, PGSDEP) modifies the association between maltreatment and depressive symptoms, while accounting for different types of maltreatment and whether it was evaluated through prospective and retrospective reports. The sample included 541-617 participants from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development with information on maltreatment, including threat, deprivation, assessed prospectively (5 months-17 years) and retrospectively (reported at 23 years), PGSDEP and self-reported depressive symptoms (20-23 years). Using hierarchical linear regressions, we found that retrospective, but not prospective indicators of maltreatment (threat/deprivation/cumulative) were associated with later depressive symptoms, above and beyond the PGSDEP. Our findings also show the presence of gene-environment interactions, whereby the association between maltreatment (retrospective cumulative maltreatment/threat, prospective deprivation) and depression was strengthened among youth with higher PGSDEP scores. Consistent with the Diathesis-Stress hypothesis, our findings suggest that a genetic predisposition for depression may exacerbate the putative impact of maltreatment on later depressive symptoms, especially when maltreatment is retrospective. Understanding the gene-environment interplay emerging in the context of maltreatment has the potential to guide prevention efforts.","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142496943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Child maltreatment and executive function development throughout adolescence and into young adulthood. 儿童受虐待与整个青春期和青年期的执行功能发展。

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Development and Psychopathology Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1017/S0954579424001457

Claudia Clinchard, Brooks Casas, Jungmeen Kim-Spoon

{"title":"Child maltreatment and executive function development throughout adolescence and into young adulthood.","authors":"Claudia Clinchard, Brooks Casas, Jungmeen Kim-Spoon","doi":"10.1017/S0954579424001457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579424001457","url":null,"abstract":"Child maltreatment impacts approximately one in seven children in the United States, leading to adverse outcomes throughout life. Adolescence is a time period critical for the development of executive function, but there is little research examining how abuse and neglect may differently affect the developmental trajectories of executive function throughout adolescence and into young adulthood. In the current study, 167 adolescents participated at six time points from ages 14 to 20. At each time point, adolescents completed behavioral tasks measuring the three dimensions of executive function (working memory, inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility). Neglect and abuse in early life (ages 1-13) were reported at ages 18-19. Unconditional growth curve models revealed age-related improvement in all three executive function dimensions. Conditional growth curve models tested the prospective effects of recalled neglect and abuse on the developmental trajectories of executive function. The results revealed that neglect was associated with developmental changes in working memory abilities, such that greater levels of neglect during ages 1-13 were associated with slower increases in working memory abilities across ages 14-20. These findings highlight the adverse consequences of early neglect experiences shown by delayed working memory development during adolescence into young adulthood.","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142496942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Intergenerational transmission of depressive symptoms: Maternal socialization of infant positive affect as a mediator. 抑郁症状的代际传播：母亲对婴儿积极情绪的社会化是一个中介。

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Development and Psychopathology Pub Date : 2024-10-22 DOI: 10.1017/S0954579424001615

Gabrielle Schmitt, Brittany Jamieson, Danielle Lim, Leslie Atkinson

{"title":"Intergenerational transmission of depressive symptoms: Maternal socialization of infant positive affect as a mediator.","authors":"Gabrielle Schmitt, Brittany Jamieson, Danielle Lim, Leslie Atkinson","doi":"10.1017/S0954579424001615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579424001615","url":null,"abstract":"Parenting behaviors play an important role in the transmission of depressive symptoms from mothers to children. Although reduced positive affect is a central feature of depression, models of intergenerational transmission have neglected maternal socialization of positive affect as a mediating mechanism. This study investigated whether maternal responses to infant positive affect mediate the link between mothers' and toddlers' depressive symptoms. A community sample of 128 mothers (58% White) and their infants (Mage = 6.65 months, SD = 0.53 at first visit) participated in 3 assessments over a 1-year period. Assessments included self-reports of postpartum depressive symptoms, observational measures of maternal responses to infant positive affect and maternal sensitivity, and mother report of toddlers' depressive problems. Mediation analyses revealed that mothers with elevated postpartum depressive symptoms displayed fewer supportive responses to their infants' positive affect. In turn, infants who received fewer supportive responses had more depressive problems in toddlerhood. The indirect effect of postpartum depressive symptoms on toddlers' depressive problems via maternal supportive responses remained significant after controlling for maternal sensitivity. Findings suggest that maternal responses to infant positive affect play a unique role in the intergenerational transmission of depressive symptoms. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142460415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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