PREINTERVENTION: DEPRESSED MOTHERS AND THEIR INFANTS

本研究的具体目的是：(1)提供和比较详细的 情感行为和面对面互动的描述 抑郁症状水平高的母亲和抑郁症状水平低的母亲 抑郁症状的水平；以及(2)描述和比较 两组母亲的行为和效果对其生活质量的影响 婴儿在第一年的行为、情感和发育结果 生活的一部分。需要评估的主要假设是，行为和 抑郁症状程度高的母亲的情感风格 影响婴儿的情感和社会发展。 50名患有高度抑郁症状的母亲和她们的 研究人员将婴儿与50名抑郁程度较低的母亲进行比较。 症状学和他们的婴儿。母亲抑郁症状学 将通过自我报告症状量表进行评估。除了先证者 母亲的抑郁症状，所有的母亲和她们的婴儿都会遇到 一套低风险标准。对正常游戏的面对面观察 母亲和一个陌生人，以及与 母亲将在婴儿3个月和6个月时在实验室进行。 年龄。此外，婴儿与陌生成年人的互动 婴儿的依恋安全感将在安斯沃斯进行评估 当婴儿12个月大的时候，情况很奇怪。

The specific aims of this study are: (1) to provide and compare detailed descriptions of the affective behavior and face-to-face interactions of mothers with high levels of depressive symptomatology and mothers with low levels of depressive symptomatology; and (2) to describe and compare the influence of the behavior and effect of the two groups of mothers on their infants' behavior, affect, and developmental outcome during the first year of life. The primary hypothesis to be evaluated is that the behavioral and affective style of mothers with high levels of depressive symptomatology compromises their infants' affective and social development. Fifty mothers with high levels of depressive symptomatology and their infants will be compared to fifty mothers with low levels of depressive symptomatology and their infants. The mothers depressive symptomatology will be assessed by a self-report symptom scale. Aside from the proband mothers' depressive symptomatology, all mothers and their infants will meet a set of low-risk criteria. Face-to-face observations of normal play with the mother and a stranger and disruptive (still-face) interactions with the mother will be carried out in the laboratory at 3 and 6 months of infant age. Additionally, the infants' interactions with an unfamiliar adult and the infant's security of attachment will be assessed in the Ainsworth Strange Situation when the infants are 12 months old.