Early Manifestations of Childhood Depression: Influences of Infant Temperament and Parental Depressive Symptoms

Autor/inn/en	Gartstein, Maria A.; Bateman, Alison E.
Titel	Early Manifestations of Childhood Depression: Influences of Infant Temperament and Parental Depressive Symptoms
Quelle	In: Infant and Child Development, 17 (2008) 3, S.223-248 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1522-7227
DOI	10.1002/icd.549
Schlagwörter	Toddlers; Infants; Personality Traits; Parents; Parent Influence; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Longitudinal Studies; Questionnaires; Mothers; Severity (of Disability); Depression (Psychology); Child Health; Mental Health; Affective Behavior; California; Child Behavior Checklist; Rothbart Infant Behavior Questionnaire + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Toddlers; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Eltern; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Fragebogen; Mother; Mutter; Schweregrad; Psychohygiene; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Kalifornien
Abstract	In this longitudinal study, 83 parents of infants between 3 and 12 months completed questionnaires assessing demographic information, infant temperament, and maternal depression. When these children were at least 18 months of age, parents completed follow-up questionnaires assessing toddler temperament and depression-like symptoms. We were primarily interested in the contributions of infant temperament and maternal depression to toddler depressive problems, and the analytic strategy involved controlling for toddler temperament in order to isolate the influence of infancy characteristics. The findings indicated that lower levels of infant regulatory capacity and greater severity of maternal depression were predictive of toddler depression-like symptoms. Moderator effects of infant temperament were also examined, with the negative affectivity * maternal depression interaction emerging as significant. Follow-up analyses indicated that the risk for early manifestations of depression was attenuated for children with lower negative affectivity in infancy and parents who reported lower levels of their own depressive symptoms; conversely, children exhibiting higher infant negative emotionality had higher levels of depression-like symptoms as toddlers, regardless of their parents' level of depression. The present findings further suggest that parental depressive symptoms need not be "clinically significant" to predict toddler affective problems. (Contains 1 figure and 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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