Depressive symptoms may be transmitted from mother to child via early interactions. Mothers with depressive symptoms display fewer supportive responses to infants’ positive emotions. In turn, infants who receive fewer supportive responses are more likely to exhibit depressive symptoms as toddlers.
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Depressive symptoms might be transmitted from mother to child through early interactions
Mothers with postpartum depression provide fewer supportive responses to their infants’ positive emotions, which increases toddlers’ depressive symptoms, highlighting maternal socialization as a key mechanism in intergenerational depression transmission.
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