PREINTERVENTION: DEPRESSED MOTHERS AND THEIR INFANTS

本研究的具体目的是：（1）提供和比较详细的 描述情感行为和面对面的互动， 高抑郁水平母亲和低抑郁水平母亲 抑郁症的发病水平;（2）描述和比较 两组母亲的行为和效果对他们的影响 第一年婴儿的行为、情感和发育结果 生命要评估的主要假设是， 高抑郁水平母亲的情感方式 会影响婴儿的情感和社会发展 50名患有高水平抑郁症的母亲及其 婴儿将与50位抑郁水平较低的母亲进行比较。 儿科学和他们的婴儿。母亲抑郁症 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，所有的母亲和他们的婴儿将满足 一套低风险标准。面对面的观察正常发挥与 母亲和一个陌生人和破坏性的（静止的脸）互动， 母亲将在婴儿3个月和6个月时在实验室进行 年龄此外，婴儿与不熟悉的成年人的互动， 婴儿的依恋安全性将在安斯沃思评估 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.