Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
Effects of maternal depression on maternal responsiveness and infants’ expressive language abilities
Originally published 2023-01-11 · PLOS ONE
PLOS · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0277762 ↗
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What is the difference between a caregiver responding promptly and a child later using more words?
Observations at different infant ages let the authors examine responsiveness, maternal symptoms and reported expressive vocabulary separately.
Who was studied?
Australian mother-infant dyads assessed for responsiveness and early language development
Age / stage: Infancy into early language development
Read with three questions
- What is the difference between a caregiver responding promptly and a child later using more words?
- What was measured at each observation, and what other influences might account for the link?
- Which features of the study population (australian mother-infant dyads assessed for responsiveness and early language development) would matter when applying the findings in another setting?
Keep the limits in view
Only 48 Australian mother-infant dyads were followed. Maternal symptoms, responsiveness and later language may share other influences, and results should not be used to forecast one child's vocabulary.
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Ruth Brookman; Marina Kalashnikova; Penny Levickis; Janet Conti; Nan Xu Rattanasone; Kerry-Ann Grant; Katherine Demuth; Denis Burnham; Rita Amiel Castro (2023). Effects of maternal depression on maternal responsiveness and infants’ expressive language abilities PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277762
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