Does Maternal Depression Predict Young Children's Executive Function?--A 4-Year Longitudinal Study

Autor/inn/en	Hughes, Claire; Roman, Gabriela; Hart, Martha J.; Ensor, Rosie
Titel	Does Maternal Depression Predict Young Children's Executive Function?--A 4-Year Longitudinal Study
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 54 (2013) 2, S.169-177 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-9630
DOI	doi:10.1111/jcpp.12014
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Depression (Psychology); Prediction; Young Children; Executive Function; Child Abuse; Child Neglect; Parent Child Relationship; Scores; Measures (Individuals); Toddlers; Observation; Educational Background; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Foreign Countries; Longitudinal Studies; Factor Analysis; United Kingdom (England); Beck Depression Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Vorhersage; Frühe Kindheit; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Kindesvernachlässigung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Messdaten; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Beobachtung; Vorbildung; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Ausland; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Faktorenanalyse
Abstract	Background: Building on reports that parental maltreatment and neglect adversely affect young children's executive function (EF), this longitudinal study examined whether exposure to a more common risk factor, mothers' depressive symptoms, predicted individual differences in EF at school-age. Methods: We followed up at age 6 a socially diverse sample of 126 children (78 boys, 48 girls) for whom direct observations of mother-child interactions have been shown to predict gains in EF between the ages of 2 and 4. We used an EF latent factor based on scores from three tasks (Beads, Day/Night, Tower of London) that tapped working memory, inhibitory control and planning, as well as a latent growth model of mothers' Beck Depression Inventory factor scores at four time-points, and included age 6 verbal ability as a covariate in all analyses. Results: The intercept and slope for mothers' depressive symptoms each predicted unique variance in EF at age 6; these predictive effects remained significant when we also included: (a) age 2 working memory, (b) maternal education and (c) direct observations of maternal positive control at ages 2 and 6. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that early exposure to mothers' depressive symptoms adversely affects children's developing EF, and that the chronicity of this exposure may matter. (Contains 4 figures and 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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