Effects of poverty and maternal depression on early child development
Effects of poverty and maternal depression on early child development
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DOI：
10.1111/1467-8624.00379
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发表时间：
2001-11-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Albers, AB
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作者：
Petterson, SM;Albers, AB
研究人员对贫困对儿童发展的有害后果重新产生了兴趣。这项研究以这项工作为基础，侧重于将物质困难与子女结局联系起来的一种机制，即母亲抑郁的中介作用。利用全国母婴健康调查的数据，我们发现，产妇抑郁和贫困危及年幼男孩和女孩的发展，在一定程度上，富裕缓冲了抑郁的有害后果。结果还表明，慢性产妇抑郁对男孩和女孩都有严重影响，而持续的贫困对女孩的发展有很大影响。这项研究中使用的贫困和母亲抑郁的衡量标准对认知发展衡量标准的影响通常比运动发育更大。
Researchers have renewed an interest in the harmful consequences of poverty on child development. This study builds on this work by focusing on one mechanism that links material hardship to child outcomes, namely the mediating effect of maternal depression. Using data from the National Maternal and Infant Health Survey, we found that maternal depression and poverty jeopardized the development of very young boys and girls, and to a certain extent, affluence buffered the deleterious consequences of depression. Results also showed that chronic maternal depression had severe implications for both boys and girls, whereas persistent poverty had a strong effect for the development of girls. The measures of poverty and maternal depression used in this study generally had a greater impact on measures of cognitive development than motor development.