The Stable Component of Maternal Depressive Symptoms Predicts Offspring Emotional and Behavioral Symptoms: a 9-years Longitudinal Study

Overview

Journal BMC Psychol

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Psychology

Date 2020 Dec 2

PMID 33261655

Citations 2

Authors

L Cerniglia

F Dentale

R Tambelli

L Murray

P Cooper

S Cimino

Affiliations

Soon will be listed here.

Abstract

Background: Maternal sub-threshold and non-clinical depression and its possible outcomes on offspring internalizing/externalizing symptoms has received growing attention in recent years because of its significant worldwide prevalence.

Methods: Through a Latent State-Trait Analysis approach (LST), this longitudinal study aimed to identify a stable component of non-clinical maternal depression across a temporal interval of 6 years (measured through the Symptom Check-List-90/R) and to determine the effect of this component on children's emotional and behavioral functioning (measured through the Child Behaviour Check-List) at age 12 years.

Results: LST analysis showed that maternal depressive symptoms tended to remain stable within individuals across 6 years of observation strongly contributing to children's internalizing/externalizing and dysregulation symptoms.

Conclusions: The current longitudinal analysis of maternal and child data revealed that a stable component of maternal depressive symptoms reliably predicted a wide range of child emotional and behavioral symptoms at 12 years of age.

Citing Articles

The Quality of Mother-Child Feeding Interactions Predicts Psychopathological Symptoms in Offspring and Mothers Seven Years Later: A Longitudinal Study on the General Population.

Cimino S, Andrei F, De Pascalis L, Trombini E, Tambelli R, Cerniglia L J Clin Med. 2023; 12(24).

PMID: 38137736 PMC: 10744080. DOI: 10.3390/jcm12247668.

The quality of father-child feeding interactions mediates the effect of maternal depression on children's psychopathological symptoms.

Cimino S, Tambelli R, Di Vito P, DAngeli G, Cerniglia L Front Psychiatry. 2022; 13:968171.

PMID: 36072463 PMC: 9444047. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.968171.

References

Goodman S, Gotlib I . Risk for psychopathology in the children of depressed mothers: a developmental model for understanding mechanisms of transmission. Psychol Rev. 1999; 106(3):458-90. DOI: 10.1037/0033-295x.106.3.458. View

Deary I, Allerhand M, Der G . Smarter in middle age, faster in old age: a cross-lagged panel analysis of reaction time and cognitive ability over 13 years in the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study. Psychol Aging. 2009; 24(1):40-7. DOI: 10.1037/a0014442. View

Halligan S, Murray L, Martins C, Cooper P . Maternal depression and psychiatric outcomes in adolescent offspring: a 13-year longitudinal study. J Affect Disord. 2006; 97(1-3):145-54. DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2006.06.010. View

Tambelli R, Cimino S, Cerniglia L, Ballarotto G . Early maternal relational traumatic experiences and psychopathological symptoms: a longitudinal study on mother-infant and father-infant interactions. Sci Rep. 2015; 5:13984. PMC: 4564854. DOI: 10.1038/srep13984. View

. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet. 2018; 392(10159):1789-1858. PMC: 6227754. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32279-7. View

Comeau J, Duncan L, Georgiades K, Wang L, Boyle M . Social assistance and trajectories of child mental health problems in Canada: evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. Can J Public Health. 2020; 111(4):585-593. PMC: 7438430. DOI: 10.17269/s41997-020-00299-1. View

Bryant-Waugh R . Feeding and eating disorders in children. Curr Opin Psychiatry. 2013; 26(6):537-42. DOI: 10.1097/YCO.0b013e328365a34b. View

Geiser C, Lockhart G . A comparison of four approaches to account for method effects in latent state-trait analyses. Psychol Methods. 2012; 17(2):255-83. PMC: 3368086. DOI: 10.1037/a0026977. View

Goldberg D . Plato versus Aristotle: categorical and dimensional models for common mental disorders. Compr Psychiatry. 2000; 41(2 Suppl 1):8-13. DOI: 10.1016/s0010-440x(00)80002-4. View

10.

Tambelli R, Trentini C, Trovato A, Volpi B . Role of psychosocial risk factors in predicting maternal and paternal depressive symptomatology during pregnancy. Infant Ment Health J. 2019; 40(4):541-556. DOI: 10.1002/imhj.21791. View

11.

Satorra A, Bentler P . Ensuring Positiveness of the Scaled Difference Chi-square Test Statistic. Psychometrika. 2010; 75(2):243-248. PMC: 2905175. DOI: 10.1007/s11336-009-9135-y. View

12.

Bath S, Steer C, Golding J, Emmett P, Rayman M . Effect of inadequate iodine status in UK pregnant women on cognitive outcomes in their children: results from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). Lancet. 2013; 382(9889):331-7. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60436-5. View

13.

Coyne J, Schwenk T . The relationship of self-reported distress to depressive disorders and other psychopathology. J Consult Clin Psychol. 1994; 62(3):550-9. DOI: 10.1037//0022-006x.62.3.550. View

14.

Geeraerts S, Deutz M, Dekovic M, Bunte T, Schoemaker K, Espy K . The Child Behavior Checklist Dysregulation Profile in Preschool Children: A Broad Dysregulation Syndrome. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2015; 54(7):595-602.e2. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2015.04.012. View

15.

Ghodsian M, Fogelman K, Lambert L, Tibbenham A . Changes in behaviour ratings of a national sample of children. Br J Soc Clin Psychol. 1980; 19(3):247-56. DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1980.tb00351.x. View

16.

Netsi E, Pearson R, Murray L, Cooper P, Craske M, Stein A . Association of Persistent and Severe Postnatal Depression With Child Outcomes. JAMA Psychiatry. 2018; 75(3):247-253. PMC: 5885957. DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2017.4363. View

17.

OConnor E, Langer D, Tompson M . Maternal Depression and Youth Internalizing and Externalizing Symptomatology: Severity and Chronicity of Past Maternal Depression and Current Maternal Depressive Symptoms. J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2016; 45(3):557-568. PMC: 5408883. DOI: 10.1007/s10802-016-0185-1. View

18.

Cerniglia L, Cimino S, Erriu M, Jezek S, Almenara C, Tambelli R . A 9-year longitudinal study on trajectories of aggressive and depressive symptoms in male and female children with overweight. BMC Res Notes. 2019; 12(1):710. PMC: 6820918. DOI: 10.1186/s13104-019-4734-x. View

19.

Wang P, Aguilar-Gaxiola S, Alonso J, Angermeyer M, Borges G, Bromet E . Use of mental health services for anxiety, mood, and substance disorders in 17 countries in the WHO world mental health surveys. Lancet. 2007; 370(9590):841-50. PMC: 2847360. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61414-7. View

20.

Rapaport M, Judd L . Minor depressive disorder and subsyndromal depressive symptoms: functional impairment and response to treatment. J Affect Disord. 1998; 48(2-3):227-32. DOI: 10.1016/s0165-0327(97)00196-1. View