Child internalizing and externalizing behaviors: Interplay between maternal depressive symptoms and child inhibitory control.

ABSTRACT: Maternal depression is a risk factor for child internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Aiming to investigate the moderating role of child inhibitory control on this relationship, we invited a sub-sample of dyads from the Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort study (MoBa) for a lab-based assessment (N = 92, M _age = 68 months, Range = 59-80, 50% girls). Maternal depression was assessed using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II), while child behaviors were measured using the Child Behavior Check List, and inhibitory control using a child friendly version of the Flanker-task. As expected, higher levels of concurrent maternal depressive symptoms predicted higher levels of child internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Importantly, and in line with our predic

SUBMITTER: Hermansen TK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10242951 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature