Mothers' recollections of parenting by their own mothers and fathers and maternal and infant outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Using a family network approach, we examined patterns of remembered parental rearing by both parents and associations with maternal and infant outcomes.

Background

Women's memories of how they were cared for by their own mothers in childhood are associated with important outcomes in the perinatal period. However, few studies assess women's recollections of caregiving by their fathers, despite fathers' influence on the larger family context and child adjustment.

Method

We combined data from two prospective longitudinal studies of mothers and their infants (N = 468) in the perinatal period to identify profiles of remembered parental rearing by both parents using latent profile analysis and examined how these profiles were associated with maternal depres

SUBMITTER: Huffhines L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11562778 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature