Preschoolers of Dysphoric Mothers
Journal of Child Psychology and PsychiatryPublished 1 February 1996
Claudia Lang, Tiffany Field, Jeffrey Pickens, Alex Martinez, Debra Bendell, Regina Yando
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Data suggest that mothers' chronic dysphoria has a negative impact on the mothers' perceptions of their children as well as the Mothers' and children's interaction behavior.
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Dysphoric mothers rated their preschool children as having more internalizing and externalizing behavior problems than children of nondysphoric mothers. Observers rated the dysphoric mothers as having more negative affect during play interactions, although their children's affect was not rated more negatively. The dysphoric mother-infant dyads were also rated as having a poorer quality interaction. These data suggest that mothers' chronic dysphoria (75% were chronically dysphoric) has a negative impact on the mothers' perceptions of their children as well as the mothers' and children's interaction behavior.
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