The impact of maternal history of maltreatment and psychopathology on mother-child relationship, parenting, and infant temperament was evaluated. Women completed self-report measures addressing childhood trauma, psychopathology, infant-parent relationship, parenting, and infant temperament. Maternal physical abuse was associated with poorer mother-child interactions, increased vigilance, and difficulty recovering from distress among infants, whereas a history of emotional abuse was linked with less interactional dysfunction, lower levels of infant frustration, and more pleasure. Maternal depression was associated with infant temperament and attitudes about parenting. These findings suggest that maternal history of childhood abuse and psychopathology are important determinants of parenting and infant temperament.
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J Affect Disord
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Center for Women's and Children's Health, Wuhan University School of Nursing, Wuhan University, 115 Donghu Road, Wuhan 430071, Hubei, China. Electronic address:
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Department of Health Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
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Dev Cogn Neurosci
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School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, UK.
It is well established that faces evoke a distinct neural response in the adult and infant brain. Past research has focused on how the infant face-sensitive ERP components (N290, P400, Nc) reflect different aspects of face processing, however there is still a lack of understanding of how these components reflect face familiarity and how they change over time. Further, there are only a few studies on whether these neural responses correlate with other aspects of development, such as infant temperament.
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Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, USA.
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Faculty of Psychology, Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universitat Dresden.
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