DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS & MOTHER-INFANT INTERACTION

这是一项干预前研究。其具体目标是：（1）提供和 比较详细的描述的行为，影响和社会 母亲与高水平抑郁症患者的相互作用， 低水平抑郁症的母亲;（2）描述和 比较两组母亲的生育对他们的影响， 婴儿在出生后第一年的行为和情感;（3） 评估针对初级保健的干预技术的可行性 根据该项目的调查结果进行预防。主要假设 需要评估的是，高水平的母亲的养育方式， 抑郁症患儿的情感和社交能力受到影响 发展为了实现这些目标，50名母亲与高水平的 将抑郁症与50名低水平抑郁症的母亲进行比较。 通过自我报告测量评估的神经病学。除了抑郁症 所有其他人都将符合一套低风险标准。 将在3、6和2个月龄的婴儿进行重复观察， 母亲和婴儿在家中的互动。此外，本发明还 在12个月时，婴儿的依恋安全性将在 安斯沃思奇异情境与幼儿的游戏互动 陌生人将被评估。这些家庭观察和实验室 观察将被录像。研究结果将用于开发 一级预防技术。

This is a preintervention study. Its specific aims are: (1) to provide and compare detailed descriptions of the caregiving behavior, affect and social interactions of mothers with high levels of depressive symptomatology and mothers with low levels of depressive symptomatology; (2) to describe and compare the impact f the caregiving of the two groups of mothers on their infants' behavior and affect during the first year of life; and (3) to evaluate the feasibility of intervention techniques aimed at primary prevention based on the findings from this project. The primary hypothesis to be evaluated is that the caregiving style of mothers with high levels of depressive symptomatology compromises their infants' affective and social development. To accomplish these aims, 50 mothers with high levels of depressive symptomatology will be compared to 50 mothers with low levels of symptomatology as assessed by a self-report measure. Aside from depressive symptomatology all the others will meet a set of low risk criteria. Repeated observations at 3, 6, and 2 months of infant age will be carried out on the interactions of the mothers and infants at home. Additionally, at 12 months the infants' security of attachment will be assessed in the Ainsworth Strange Situation and the infants' play interaction with a stranger will be evaluated. These home observations and the laboratory observations ill be videotaped. The results will then be used to develop primary prevention techniques.