Infant Negativity Moderates Trajectories of Maternal Emotion Across Pregnancy and the Peripartum Period.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although the effects of maternal behavior on the development of child emotion characteristics is relatively well-established, effects of infant characteristics on maternal emotion development is less well known. This gap in knowledge persists despite repeated calls for including child-to-mother effects in studies of emotion. We tested the theory-based postulate that infant temperamental negativity moderates longitudinal trajectories of mothers' perinatal symptoms of anxiety and depression.

Method

Participants were 92 pregnant community women who enrolled in a longitudinal study of maternal mental health; symptoms of anxiety and depression were assessed during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy and again at infant age 4 months. A multimethod assessment of

SUBMITTER: Brooker RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9873204 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature