THE DEVELOPMENT OF ATTENTION SPAN IN CHILDREN OF DEPRESSED AND WELL MOTHERS

这项研究的目的是调查……的发展 母亲情绪低落而母亲健康的孩子的注意力持续时间长； (B)母体对注意力发展的影响和(C)影响 抑郁对母亲管教年幼子女的能力的影响 注意力持续时间。关于……发展的信息很少。 注意在婴儿期和幼儿期之间的过渡期。在……里面 此外，母亲作为孩子注意力调节器的角色并不是 很好理解，并要求进行详细调查。注意，就像许多人一样 其他技能可能至少需要接受部分培训。母亲，通过 他们与孩子的互动，假设是为了提供这样的 训练。他们被假设是为了引起孩子的注意，并 通过他们的参与来保持它，关于孩子们的反馈 活动和增援。因为抑郁会导致情绪下降 能够集中注意力，对日常活动失去兴趣，以及 易怒，抑郁的母亲被认为比 好的，母亲们要训练孩子的注意力。因此， 抑郁的母亲被认为注意力不集中。 对29例抑郁症妇女(单相抑郁症)和29例健康妇女进行观察 带着他们的孩子。这些孩子的年龄在16到44个月之间 初步观察，部分3年后已观察到。 初步分析表明，抑郁女性的学步儿童有 注意力持续时间更短。

The objective of this study is to investigate () the development of toddlers' attention span in children of depressed and well mothers; (b)\maternal influences on the development of attention and (c) the effects of depression on mothers' ability to regulate their young children's attention span. There is very little information about the development of attention in the transition years between infancy and early childhood. In addition, the role of mother as a regulator of a child's attention is not well understood and calls for detailed investigation. Attention, like many other skills may need to be at least partially trained. Mothers, through their interaction with their children, are hypothesized to provide such training. They are hypothesized to recruit their children's attention and to maintain it through their involvment, feedback regarding the children's activity and through reinforcement. Since depression entails a diminished ability to concentrate, loss of interest in usual activities and irritability, depressed mothers are hypothesized to be less likely than well mothers to train their childen's attention. Consequently, children of depressed mothers are hypothesized to have deficits in attention. 29\depressed women (unipolar depression) and 29 well women were observed with their children. The childen were between 16 and 44 months at the initial observation and some were already observed 3 years later. Preliminary analyses indicate that toddlers of depressed women have a shorter attention span.