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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-7-9
pubmed:abstractText
Drawing from transactional models, the authors examined whether attachment security measured at age 3 (a potential source of differential vulnerability) interacts with the course of maternal depressive symptoms over an 8-year period (a potential source of differential exposure) in predicting children's self-reported depressive symptoms at age 11. Participants were from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care (N = 938). Results from growth curve modeling and analysis of covariance suggest that preschool attachment quality moderates the influence of subsequent maternal depression on children. In particular, variability in the course of maternal depressive symptoms predicted offspring depressive symptoms only among those children with an insecure attachment history. A potential protective effect of early attachment security was evident among children exposed to the most chronic levels of maternal depression. Of the children with different patterns of insecure attachments, those with behaviors classified as disorganized appeared most vulnerable to also becoming depressed if paired with a mother experiencing ongoing depressive symptoms.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0012-1649
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
45
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1019-33
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19586177-Child, pubmed-meshheading:19586177-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:19586177-Child of Impaired Parents, pubmed-meshheading:19586177-Chronic Disease, pubmed-meshheading:19586177-Depressive Disorder, pubmed-meshheading:19586177-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19586177-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19586177-Internal-External Control, pubmed-meshheading:19586177-Longitudinal Studies, pubmed-meshheading:19586177-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19586177-Models, Psychological, pubmed-meshheading:19586177-Mother-Child Relations, pubmed-meshheading:19586177-Object Attachment, pubmed-meshheading:19586177-Personality Inventory, pubmed-meshheading:19586177-Psychometrics, pubmed-meshheading:19586177-Risk Factors, pubmed-meshheading:19586177-Socioeconomic Factors, pubmed-meshheading:19586177-Statistics as Topic, pubmed-meshheading:19586177-United States
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Depressive symptoms in mothers and children: preschool attachment as a moderator of risk.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA. stephanie.milan@uconn.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural