Language use in depressed and non-depressed mothers and their adolescent offspring.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Approximately 10% of mothers experience depression each year, which increases risk for depression in offspring. Currently no research has analysed the linguistic features of depressed mothers and their adolescent offspring during dyadic interactions. We examined the extent to which linguistic features of mothers' and adolescents' speech during dyadic interactional tasks could discriminate depressed from non-depressed mothers.

Methods

Computer-assisted linguistic analysis (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count; LIWC) was applied to transcripts of low-income mother-adolescent dyads (N = 151) performing a lab-based problem-solving interaction task. One-way multivariate analyses were conducted to determine linguistic features hypothesized to be related to maternal depress

SUBMITTER: Cariola LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11654823 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature