Speaking of State of Mind: Maternal Mental Health Predicts Children's Home Language Environment and Expressive Language

Autor/inn/en	Clifford, Brandon Neil; Stockdale, Laura A.; Coyne, Sarah M.; Rainey, Vanessa; Benitez, Viridiana L.
Titel	Speaking of State of Mind: Maternal Mental Health Predicts Children's Home Language Environment and Expressive Language
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 49 (2021) 3, S.469-485 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Clifford, Brandon Neil)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000921000131
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Parent Child Relationship; Mental Health; Expressive Language; Anxiety; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Language Acquisition; Risk; Child Development; Depression (Psychology); Infants; Measures (Individuals); Speech Communication; Family Environment; Prediction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Psychohygiene; Angst; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Risiko; Kindesentwicklung; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Messdaten; Familienmilieu; Vorhersage
Abstract	Maternal depression and anxiety are potential risk factors to children's language environments and development. Though existing work has examined relations between these constructs, further work is needed accounting for both depression and anxiety and using more direct measures of the home language environment and children's language development. We examined 265 mother-infant dyads (49.6% female, M[subscript age] = 17.03 months) from a large city in the Western United States to explore the relations between self-reports of maternal depression and anxiety and observational indices of the home language environment and expressive language as captured by Language Environment Analysis (LENA) and parent-reported language comprehension and production. Results revealed maternal depressive symptoms to be negatively associated with home language environment and expressive language indices. Maternal anxiety symptoms were found to be negatively associated with children's parent-reported language production. These findings provide further evidence that maternal mental health modulates children's home language environments and expressive language. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01