TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Maternal depressive symptoms during the pre- and postnatal periods and infant attention to emotional faces
JO  - Child development
A1  - Kataja, Eeva-Leena
A1  - Karlsson, Linnea
A1  - Leppänen, Jukka M.
A1  - Pelto, Juho
A1  - Häikiö, Tuomo
A1  - Nolvi, Saara
A1  - Pesonen, Henri
A1  - Parsons, Christine E.
A1  - Hyönä, Jukka
A1  - Karlsson, Hasse
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - We examined how infants' attentional disengagement from happy, fearful, neutral, and phase-scrambled faces at 8 months, as assessed by eye tracking, is associated with trajectories of maternal depressive symptoms from early pregnancy to 6 months postpartum (decreasing n = 48, increasing n = 34, and consistently low symptom levels n = 280). The sample (mother-infant dyads belonging to a larger FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study) was collected between 5/2013-6/2016. The overall disengagement probability from faces to distractors was not related to maternal depressive symptoms, but fear bias was heightened in infants whose mothers reported decreasing or increasing depressive symptoms. Exacerbated attention to fearful faces in infants of mothers with depressive symptoms may be independent of the timing of the symptoms in the pre- and postnatal stages.<br><br>© 2018 Society for Research in Child Development.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0009-3920
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13152
ID  - ref1
ER  -