{"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":"10.1017/S0954579424001615","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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 (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 6.65 months, <i>SD</i> = 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 <i>via</i> 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.</p>","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"2065-2075"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","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}
Arthur Chortatos, Maiju Pesonen, Owen Thomas, Elena Toffol, Ville Airaksinen, Emma Musakka, Martin Täubel, Pirkka Kirjavainen, Katri Backman, Juha Pekkanen, Leea Keski-Nisula, Soili M Lehto
{"title":"Microbial exposure at birth and the development of behavioral temperament during the first three years of childhood.","authors":"Arthur Chortatos, Maiju Pesonen, Owen Thomas, Elena Toffol, Ville Airaksinen, Emma Musakka, Martin Täubel, Pirkka Kirjavainen, Katri Backman, Juha Pekkanen, Leea Keski-Nisula, Soili M Lehto","doi":"10.1017/S0954579424001676","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0954579424001676","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigated cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between neonate microbial exposure and emerging behavioral temperament measures at the ages of 1, 2, and 3 years. Infants and mothers (<i>n = 335</i>) were extracted from the Kuopio Birth Cohort Study. Temperament was assessed using the Infant Behavioral and Early Childhood Behavioral Questionnaires. Microbial samples were collected from oral cavity at birth and the bacterial profiles were assessed using 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Microbial diversity was characterized using alpha and beta diversity metrics. Analyses were performed for the most abundant genera. The sample was analyzed as a whole, as well as divided into subgroups representing no antibiotic use during birth (<i>n = 198</i>) and those with antibiotic use during birth (<i>n = 137</i>). No significant associations were observed between microbial profiles and behavioral measures after Bonferroni corrections. Nevertheless, our pre-correction results indicated an association between increased behavioral temperament surgency in the first year and beta diversity (high abundance of <i>Bacteroides</i>, <i>Faecalibacterium</i> and <i>Blautia</i>, low abundance of <i>Lactobacillus</i>) in the antibiotic use group. Additionally, pre-corrections, a high relative abundance of <i>Staphylococcus</i> was associated with increased surgency through years 1, 2, and 3 in the no antibiotics group, prompting consideration into a possible link between antibiotic use and emerging behavioral temperament.</p>","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"2087-2098"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142460416","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}
Lea Grossmann, Ruth Van der Hallen, Guus Smeets, Peter Prinzie
{"title":"The interplay between identity and personality pathology in emerging adults: A 7-year cross-lagged study.","authors":"Lea Grossmann, Ruth Van der Hallen, Guus Smeets, Peter Prinzie","doi":"10.1017/S095457942400169X","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S095457942400169X","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Personality pathology is hypothesized to be an important factor in shaping identity, yet longitudinal evidence linking dimensional measures of identity and personality pathology remains scarce. To address this knowledge gap and shed light on the reciprocal dynamics proposed by the alternative model of personality disorder, we conducted a comprehensive seven-year study involving 372 emerging adults from a community sample (<i>Mage</i> <sub><i>T1</i></sub> = 21.98 years, <i>SD</i> <sub><i>T1</i></sub> = 1.13; 57% females). Pathological personality traits were assessed using the short form of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5 SF) while identity was assessed with the Dimensions of Identity Development Scale (DIDS). Cross-lagged analyses in Mplus revealed that personality pathology consistently predicts subsequent different levels of identity seven years later, whereas only one significant pathway from identity to personality pathology was found. Notably, negative affectivity and detachment emerge as the most influential pathological personality trait, whereas no significant effects were found for disinhibition and psychoticism. In summary, our study uncovered compelling longitudinal associations that underscore the pivotal role of pathological personality traits in the development of identity. Implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"2111-2125"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142817158","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}
Benjamin M Rosenberg, João F Guassi Moreira, Adriana S Méndez Leal, Natalie M Saragosa-Harris, Elizabeth Gaines, Wesley J Meredith, Yael Waizman, Emilia Ninova, Jennifer A Silvers
{"title":"Functional connectivity between the nucleus accumbens and amygdala underlies avoidance learning during adolescence: Implications for developmental psychopathology.","authors":"Benjamin M Rosenberg, João F Guassi Moreira, Adriana S Méndez Leal, Natalie M Saragosa-Harris, Elizabeth Gaines, Wesley J Meredith, Yael Waizman, Emilia Ninova, Jennifer A Silvers","doi":"10.1017/S095457942400141X","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S095457942400141X","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Reward and threat processes work together to support adaptive learning during development. Adolescence is associated with increasing approach behavior (e.g., novelty-seeking, risk-taking) but often also coincides with emerging internalizing symptoms, which are characterized by heightened avoidance behavior. Peaking engagement of the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) during adolescence, often studied in reward paradigms, may also relate to threat mechanisms of adolescent psychopathology.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>47 typically developing adolescents (9.9-22.9 years) completed an aversive learning task during functional magnetic resonance imaging, wherein visual cues were paired with an aversive sound or no sound. Task blocks involved an escapable aversively reinforced stimulus (CS+<sub>r</sub>), the same stimulus without reinforcement (CS+<sub>nr</sub>), or a stimulus that was never reinforced (CS-). Parent-reported internalizing symptoms were measured using Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scales.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Functional connectivity between the NAcc and amygdala differentiated the stimuli, such that connectivity increased for the CS+<sub>r</sub> (<i>p</i> = .023) but not for the CS+<sub>nr</sub> and CS-. Adolescents with greater internalizing symptoms demonstrated greater positive functional connectivity for the CS- (<i>p</i> = .041).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Adolescents show heightened NAcc-amygdala functional connectivity during escape from threat. Higher anxiety and depression symptoms are associated with elevated NAcc-amygdala connectivity during safety, which may reflect poor safety versus threat discrimination.</p>","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"1833-1845"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11936845/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142343574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LillyBelle K Deer, Kylie K Harrall, Deborah H Glueck, Elysia Poggi Davis, Keith E Muller, Dana Dabelea, Jenalee R Doom
{"title":"Sensitive periods and other timing hypotheses in developmental psychopathology: A tutorial.","authors":"LillyBelle K Deer, Kylie K Harrall, Deborah H Glueck, Elysia Poggi Davis, Keith E Muller, Dana Dabelea, Jenalee R Doom","doi":"10.1017/S0954579424001299","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0954579424001299","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Researchers often aim to assess whether repeated measures of an exposure are associated with repeated measures of an outcome. A question of particular interest is how associations between exposures and outcomes may differ over time. In other words, researchers may seek the best form of a temporal model. While several models are possible, researchers often consider a few key models. For example, researchers may hypothesize that an exposure measured during a sensitive period may be associated with repeated measures of the outcome over time. Alternatively, they may hypothesize that the exposure measured immediately before the current time period may be most strongly associated with the outcome at the current time. Finally, they may hypothesize that all prior exposures are important. Many analytic methods cannot compare and evaluate these alternative temporal models, perhaps because they make the restrictive assumption that the associations between exposures and outcomes remains constant over time. Instead, we provide a tutorial describing four temporal models that allow the associations between repeated measures of exposures and outcomes to vary, and showing how to test which temporal model is best supported by the data. By finding the best temporal model, developmental psychopathology researchers can find optimal windows for intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"1721-1729"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142281999","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}
{"title":"Empathy as a risk factor for internalizing symptoms during war: A 10-year prospective study from toddlerhood to adolescence.","authors":"Dana Katsoty, Lior Abramson, Ariel Knafo-Noam","doi":"10.1017/S0954579425100631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579425100631","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While empathy is often seen as a resilience factor, emotional resonance with others' suffering may increase psychological vulnerability during mass trauma exposure, particularly in youth. Since the role of early empathy as a prospective risk factor remains understudied, we used a decade-long longitudinal design to examine whether empathic reactions in childhood predicted early adolescents' internalizing (depression and anxiety) symptoms following the October 7th attack and the Israel-Hamas war. Empathic distress was assessed at age 1.5 years and age 3 years through observational tasks. Emotional empathy and internalizing symptoms were self-reported at age 11 years, before the war, and reported again after its outbreak. Findings showed substantial internalizing symptoms during the war, with 31% of participants exceeding the clinical cutoff for anxiety and 23% for depression. Non of the empathy measures predicted internalizing symptoms before the war. However, during the war, empathic distress at age 1.5 and emotional empathy at age 11 predicted internalizing symptoms, controlling for negative emotionality and prior internalizing symptoms. Path analysis also linked empathic distress at age 3 to internalizing symptoms during war. Findings suggest that early empathic reactions may increase vulnerability to internalizing symptoms during mass trauma but not in non-traumatic contexts, aligning with a diathesis-stress model. Understanding empathy's role in risk and resilience can inform interventions for youth exposed to war.</p>","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145112144","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}
Sofia I Cárdenas, Van Truong, Genesis Flores, Fang-Cheng Yeh, Darby E Saxbe, Vidya Rajagopalan
{"title":"Risky family environment, white matter organization, and effective parenting in expectant fathers.","authors":"Sofia I Cárdenas, Van Truong, Genesis Flores, Fang-Cheng Yeh, Darby E Saxbe, Vidya Rajagopalan","doi":"10.1017/S0954579425100679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579425100679","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fathers have a unique and critical role in children's development, but limited empirical studies have examined prenatal predictors of fathers' parenting behaviors. Exposure to early life stressors may alter adult brain white matter fibers, especially in fibers supporting optimal cognitive and emotional functioning. As such, men with experiences of early life stressors, such as risky family environments, may enter parenthood with neurobiological differences that impact their ability to provide optimal parenting. Few studies focus on early life stressors on men's prenatal neurobiology and subsequent parenting outcomes. This study of first-time fathers (<i>n</i> = 41; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 31.81 years; 32% Hispanic; 32% White; 24% Asian American; 7% Black; 5% Multiracial) investigated whether risky family environments would be associated with prenatal white matter organization and postpartum parenting (infants' <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 6.96 months). White matter organization was quantified through fractional anisotropy (FA), a measure of the directionality of the fibers within the tissue. Fathers reporting riskier family environments exhibited lower FA in white matter tracts like fornix and cingulum, which support connections between brain areas underlying memory and emotion regulation. Lower FA in these regions predicted less effective parenting postpartum. Findings provide insight into intergenerational transmission of family risk.</p>","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145112135","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}
Miranda Christine Lutz, Rianne Kok, Susanne Koot, Pol A C van Lier, Marieke J Buil, Ingmar H A Franken
{"title":"Developmental trajectory of flanker performance and its link to problem behavior in 7- to 12-year-old children.","authors":"Miranda Christine Lutz, Rianne Kok, Susanne Koot, Pol A C van Lier, Marieke J Buil, Ingmar H A Franken","doi":"10.1017/S0954579425100692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579425100692","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Empirical literature on the trajectory of task performance in children is currently scarce. Therefore, this study investigates both the developmental trajectory of flanker task performance in children and the association with the development of teacher-reported problem behavior. Five waves of flanker performance and behavioral and emotional problems were drawn from a large longitudinal sample of elementary school children in the Netherlands (1424 children, ages 7 to 12 years). Latent growth curve modeling (LGM) identified a piecewise decrease in flanker response time: the steepest decline was found from 7 to 9 years old. Boys had lower levels of response time at age 7 than girls. Children showed a linear decrease in behavioral and emotional problems over time. Parallel LGMs revealed that lower levels of initial flanker response time were associated with a stronger decrease in anxiety problems and oppositional defiant-related behavior. A faster decline in response time was associated with a faster decline in depression problems, attention deficit hyperactivity-, and oppositional defiant-related behavior. Results offer insight into the normative development of performance monitoring in childhood and the link between behavioral measures of performance monitoring and behavioral and emotional problems. Future research should focus on the directionality of the association between performance monitoring and psychopathology.</p>","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145112181","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}
Lauren Eales, Andrea Wiglesworth, Kathryn R Cullen, Bonnie Klimes-Dougan
{"title":"Screen time, problematic media use, and clinical concerns in the ABCD Study: Differences by sex and race/ethnicity.","authors":"Lauren Eales, Andrea Wiglesworth, Kathryn R Cullen, Bonnie Klimes-Dougan","doi":"10.1017/S0954579425100655","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0954579425100655","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study assesses the relation between screen time, problematic media use behaviors, and clinical concerns (internalizing and externalizing problems) and suicidal ideation and non-suicidal self-injury within race/ethnicity and sex in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (youth aged 11 to 12; <i>N</i> = 10,052). Understanding behaviors around screens (problematic media use), rather than focusing on screen time alone is useful in guiding clinical recommendations. In this analysis, regression models indicated that problematic media use consistently predicted clinical concerns with a larger effect size than screen media use. When examining how problematic media use and screen media use related to clinical concerns along domains of race/ethnicity and sex, problematic media use was a more consistent predictor of clinical concerns than screen media use for almost every race/ethnicity (except American Indian/Alaska Native participants). Problematic media use was also a consistent predictor of clinical concerns for both males and females, with some difference in screen media use predictors. This study has implications for the utility of assessing screen media use in research on clinical concerns in youth, and further suggests that researchers and clinicians should consider behaviors around screens in addition to screen time itself when assessing for impact on mental health.</p>","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12453542/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145085346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Frances L Wang, Shirley Duong, Heather M Joseph, Traci M Kennedy, Catharina Hartman
{"title":"Temperament multi-trajectory groups across adolescence: Associations with adulthood psychopathology and polygenic scores in TRAILS.","authors":"Frances L Wang, Shirley Duong, Heather M Joseph, Traci M Kennedy, Catharina Hartman","doi":"10.1017/S0954579425100680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579425100680","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is well-established that adolescents' temperament trajectories predict future psychopathology. Less well understood is how temperament traits co-develop from adolescence to young adulthood. We characterized how youths' trajectories of effortful control, frustration, affiliation, and shyness formed multi-trajectory groups and examined their associations with adulthood psychopathology and polygenic risk scores (PRS). Participants were drawn from a larger longitudinal cohort (<i>N</i> = 1412). Effortful control, frustration, affiliation, and shyness were measured four times from ages 10-23. Adulthood internalizing and externalizing problems were measured at ages 24-27. PRS for externalizing problems and major depressive disorder were calculated. Group-based multi-trajectory analyses showed that a five-group model fit best, including \"<i>high-risk\"</i> on all temperament traits, <i>\"undercontrolled\"</i> and exuberant, <i>\"low-risk\"</i> on all traits, <i>\"overcontrolled\"</i> and inhibited, and <i>\"low affiliation\"</i> groups that differed on both the levels and slopes of temperament traits over time. The <i>undercontrolled</i> group showed the highest, and <i>overcontrolled</i> the lowest, externalizing PRS scores. The <i>high-risk</i> group showed heightened scores on the depression PRS. We found specific linkages between the <i>high-risk</i> group and withdrawn/depressed symptoms and the <i>high-risk</i> and <i>undercontrolled</i> groups with externalizing problems. Findings shed light on developmental patterns of temperament in adolescence-to-adulthood and unique combinations of temperament trajectories with specific linkages to etiologic factors and psychopathology.</p>","PeriodicalId":11265,"journal":{"name":"Development and Psychopathology","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145074554","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}