Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Language Development: The Moderating Role of Child Temperament

Autor/inn/en	Hentges, Rochelle F.; Madigan, Sheri; Tough, Suzanne; McDonald, Sheila; Graham, Susan A.
Titel	Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Language Development: The Moderating Role of Child Temperament
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 57 (2021) 6, S.863-875 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Hentges, Rochelle F.) ORCID (Graham, Susan A.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0001184
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Depression (Psychology); Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Language Acquisition; Child Language; Language Skills; Preschool Children; Toddlers; At Risk Persons; Context Effect; Personality Traits; Predictor Variables; Measures (Individuals); Foreign Countries; Canada; Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale; Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Risikogruppe; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Prädiktor; Messdaten; Ausland; Kanada
Abstract	The current study examined the interaction between maternal depressive symptoms and child temperament in predicting subsequent child language skills. Participants were 252 mother-child dyads recruited from the All Our Families longitudinal cohort, a primarily middle-class sample (62.9% completed postsecondary education) from Alberta, Canada (90.5% White, 6% Asian, 3.5% other). Maternal depressive symptoms at age 3, controlling for prenatal depressive symptoms, did not evidence a direct effect on child language skills at age 5 (49.6% males; mean [M] = 5.12 years old, standard deviation [SD] = 0.11). However, both child surgency and effortful control interacted with maternal depression at age 3 to predict later language skills. Low effortful control was a risk factor for poorer language abilities in contexts of high maternal depressive symptoms. High child surgency emerged as a differential susceptibility marker, predicting poorer language skills in contexts of high maternal depressive symptoms but better language skills in contexts of low depressive symptoms. Negative affect did not interact with maternal depressive symptoms in predicting language skills. These findings highlight the complex interaction between maternal and child characteristics in predicting language development during a developmental period in which language skills are a prime indicator of school readiness and a predictor of future academic achievement and socioemotional adjustment. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01