Interactive Regulation of Affect in Postpartum Depressed Mothers and Their Infants: An Overview

Reck, Corinna; Hunt, Aoife; Fuchs, Thomas; Weiss, Robert; Noon, Andrea; Moehler, Eva; Downing, George; Tronick, Edward Z.; Mundt, Christoph

doi:10.1159/000081983

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“…Given the risk and demographic status of the sample and known associations between these and target parameters, a set of covariates was introduced to control for their effects [22,23,48,61]. Covariates included the categorical variables diagnosis of depression, infant gender and maternal education level, and the continuous variables age of infant, age of mother and number of children.…”

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“…Withdrawn and intrusive interaction styles often exhibited by depressed mothers were found to be associated with adverse infant outcomes, such as a generalized disengaged and passive affectivity and self-regulatory style as well as insecure attachment styles [19,20,21,22,23]. Mother-infant matching can be hampered by maternal depression [22,23,24].…”

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Influence of Dyadic Matching of Affect on Infant Self-Regulation

Noe¹,

Schluckwerder²,

Reck³

2015

Psychopathology

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Background/Aims: Affective behavioural matching during face-to-face interaction fosters the transition from mutual regulation to infant self-regulation. Optimum midrange models of mother-infant interaction hold that moderate degrees of dyadic matching facilitate infant socio-emotional development. The aim of this study was to examine which degree of dyadic matching is most beneficial for infant self-regulation. Methods: To evaluate this model, 3 groups of highly, midrange and poorly matched dyads were created from a mixed sample of 68 dyads with healthy and post-partum depressed mothers and their infants (age range = 1-8 months, mean age = 3.9 months). Mother-infant interactions were videotaped in the face-to-face still-face paradigm (FFSF) and micro-analytically coded. Specifically, the relation between affective behavioural matching in FFSF play and infant positive and negative affect in FFSF still face and FFSF reunion was explored. Results: Contrary to our expectation, we found a monotonous trend for all groups: the more matching in FFSF play, the more positive and less negative affect the infant showed in FFSF still face and FFSF reunion, respectively. Conclusion: The present findings further illuminate the association between different degrees of dyadic matching in early mother-infant interaction and infant self-regulation. Further research should focus on the integration and replication of findings and conceptual approaches to further evaluate and refine the concept of midrange matching and make it applicable to therapeutic work with mothers and their infants.

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Influence of Dyadic Matching of Affect on Infant Self-Regulation

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Schluckwerder²,

Reck³

2015

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“…There is an indication that maternal depression, particularly in the postpartum period, negatively affects the interaction quality between a mother and her infant [12,13] and, consequently, child development [14,15]. Easterbrooks et al [16] found a negative effect of maternal postpartum depression on two dimensions of EA, namely maternal sensitivity and structuring, when children were 7 years old, even when controlling for concurrent maternal depression.…”

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Maternal Emotional Availability and Its Association with Maternal Psychopathology, Attachment Style Insecurity and Theory of Mind

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Zietlow

Träuble

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Background/Aims: High maternal emotional availability (EA) positively affects various domains of child development. However, the question of which factors promote or hinder maternal EA has not been investigated systematically. The present study investigated several maternal characteristics, namely maternal psychopathology, maternal attachment style insecurity, and theory of mind (ToM) as possible factors that influence maternal EA. Methods: The sample was comprised of 56 mothers and their preschool-aged children. Half of the mothers were diagnosed with postpartum depression and or anxiety disorders according to DSM-IV, and the other half were healthy controls. Results: The results showed that both low maternal attachment style insecurity and high ToM skills significantly predicted maternal EA sensitivity, independently from maternal postpartum and concurrent psychopathology and education. Moreover, maternal attachment style insecurity fully mediated the link between maternal postpartum psychopathology and sensitivity. Conclusion: The findings suggest that maternal attachment style security can buffer negative effects of maternal psychopathology on maternal sensitivity in the mother-child interaction.

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“…Insgesamt betrachtet wird vielfach postuliert, dass die negativen Auswirkungen der mütterlichen Depression im Wesentlichen durch Störungen der Mutter-KindInteraktion vermittelt werden (Murray u. Cooper, 1997;Tronick u. Reck, 2009;Reck et al, 2004).…”

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Kindliches Temperament und mütterliche Affektivität

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Reck²,

Müller³

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Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie

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Nutzungsbedingungen Summary Childhood Temperament and Maternal AffectivityThis study examines the question whether early childhood temperaments of children of mothers suffering from postnatal depression differs from children of non-depressed mothers. Children of clinically depressed mothers were assessed with regard to their temperament on two different dimensions and compared to a control group. The level of cortisol concentration in the children's saliva was the first variable. Saliva samples were gathered on three consecutive days to obtain a baseline, and before and after a mother-children interaction, which was interrupted by a still-face phase. As second variable the early childhood temperament was assessed with the Infant Behavior Questionnaire (IBQ). After the mother-children interaction the cortisol concentration levels of children of mothers suffering from postnatal depression were significantly lower. In the IBQ-Scales the children of depressed mothers showed significantly higher values on the scales Distress to Limitations and Activity. The significantly lower cortisol concentration in the saliva of children of mothers suffering from postpartum depression could be an indication that these children are already used to the fact that their mothers are not paying attention to them during the still-face phase. Overall, the results give rise to the assumption that postpartum depression does have an adverse impact on the development of affected children and that early intervention would be expedient to prevent the occurrence of pathological behavior characteristics and difficult mother-child relationships.Prax. Kinderpsychol. Kinderpsychiat. 61/2012, 92-107

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Interactive Regulation of Affect in Postpartum Depressed Mothers and Their Infants: An Overview

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Influence of Dyadic Matching of Affect on Infant Self-Regulation

Influence of Dyadic Matching of Affect on Infant Self-Regulation

Maternal Emotional Availability and Its Association with Maternal Psychopathology, Attachment Style Insecurity and Theory of Mind

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