What is it about?
This study examines how mothers' and fathers' pre- and postnatal depressive symptoms separately affect children's social-emotional, cognitive, and language development, and whether parental stress mediates these relationships.
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Why is it important?
The study indicates that parenting stress may link parental depression with child outcomes. It also highlights the need to consider fathers' depressive symptoms in clinical and research settings.
Perspectives
This study, using a large community sample of families, shows a clear connection between parental depression and children's later development in several areas.
Professor Lars Smith
University of Oslo
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This page is a summary of: Parenting Stress Plays a Mediating Role in the Prediction of Early Child Development from Both Parents’ Perinatal Depressive Symptoms, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-018-0428-4.
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