THE EFFECTS OF MATERNAL DEPRESSION ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT

抑郁母亲的孩子是一个被忽视和被忽视的 人口 关于被一只小山羊饲养的后果，人们知之甚少。 抑郁的母亲对后代能力发展的影响。 本研究的主要目的是：1）社会和 情感发展、智力功能和诊断状态 抑郁母亲的孩子; 2）父母教养的具体维度 与母亲的抑郁症有关; 3）家庭的程度 压力、支持资源和父母婚姻的质量可能 增加或减少抑郁母亲对子女的影响;以及 4)与抑郁母亲接触的时间越长， 对孩子的负面影响。 根据母亲的年龄，将30名儿童分为三组进行研究。 诊断：重度抑郁症，急性;重度抑郁症，性格学; 好. 儿童年龄从4岁到10岁不等。 所有 受试者将是白色人并且主要是中等SES。 母亲的诊断 将通过结构化临床访谈进行确认， RDC和DSMIII诊断。 儿童的社会和情感功能将 用三个多层面的社会能力指数进行评估： 自我概念、自我控制和同伴关系。 儿童也将 进行个人智力测试和结构化诊断 采访 还将评估养育子女的维度，压力生活 家庭活动和支持资源以及婚姻质量。 将使用一系列MANOVA和MANCOVA对假设进行检验， 母亲对儿童能力的诊断状况。 拟议研究的一个主要目的是增加知识库 孩子如何科普抑郁的母亲 一个大前提是 这项研究的设计是， 完成社会和情感发展的任务可能是 一个更好的指数的影响，一个抑郁的母亲比试图 诊断孩子的抑郁症。 此外，在这些方面的缺陷， 发展可能与儿童期或早期抑郁症有关， 这样，将有助于了解发展过程， 精神病理学 这项研究还应提供一些信息， 为儿童设计预防性干预措施， 抑郁的母亲

The children of depressed mothers are a neglected and understudied population. Little is known about the consequences of rearing by a depressed mother on the development of competencies in her offspring. The goals of the proposed research are to study: 1) the social and emotional development, intellectual functioning, and diagnostic status of children of depressed mothers; 2) specific dimensions of parenting associated with depression in the mothers; 3) the degree to which family stresses, support resources, and quality of the parent's marriage may increase or decrease the effect of depressed mothers on their children; and 4) whether more years of exposure to the depressed mother result in more negative effects to the child. Thirty children will be studied in each of three groups based on mother's diagnosis: major depression, acute; major depression, characterological; well. Children will range in age from 4 through 10 years old. All subjects will be white and predominantly middle SES. Mothers' diagnoses will be confirmed with a structured clinical interview resulting in both RDC and DSMIII diagnoses. Children's social and emotional functioning will be assessed with three multidimensional indices of social competence: self-concept, self-control, and peer relations. Children will also be administered an individual intelligence test and a structured diagnostic interview. Also assessed will be dimensions of parenting, stressful life events and support resources of the family, and quality of the marriage. Hypotheses will be tested with a series of MANOVA's and MANCOVA's of mother's diagnostic status on child competence. A major purpose of the proposed research is to increase the knowledge base on how children cope with a depressed mother. A major premise underlying the design of the study is that the progress a child is making in accomplishing the tasks of social and emotional development is likely to be a better index of the impact of a depressed mother than attempts to diagnose depression in the child. Further, deficits in these aspects of development may be correlates of childhood or incipient depression and, as such, would contribute to knowledge about the developmental course of psychopathology. The study should also provide some of the information needed in order to design preventive interventions for children of depressed mothers.