Disentangling the trajectories of maternal depressive symptoms and partnership problems in the transition to parenthood and their impact on child adjustment difficulties

Ray, Jana K. ; Stürmlinger, Linda Luisa ; von Krause, Mischa ; Lux, Ulrike ; Zietlow, Anna-Lena

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DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579423001335
URL:	https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/developmen...
URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-661108
Document Type:	Article
Year of publication Online:	2023
Date:	2023
The title of a journal, publication series:	Development and Psychopathology : D&P
Volume:	tba
Issue number:	tba
Page range:	1-16
Place of publication:	New York, NY, Cambridge
Publishing house:	Cambridge University Press
ISSN:	0954-5794
Publication language:	English
Institution:	Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences- CDSS (Social Sciences) School of Social Sciences > Klinische u. Biologische Psychologie u. Psychotherapie (Alpers 2010-)
Pre-existing license:	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Subject:	150 Psychology
Individual keywords (German):	Perinataldepression , Partnerschaftsqualität , Kindesentwicklung , Psychische Gesundheit der Familie , Risiko vor der Geburt
Keywords (English):	perinatal depression , partnership quality , child development , family mental health , prenatal risk
Abstract:	Maternal perinatal depression (PND) and partnership problems have been identified to influence the development of later child adjustment difficulties. However, PND and partnership problems are closely linked which makes it difficult to draw conclusions about the exact transmission pathways. The aim of the present study was to investigate to what extent PND symptoms and partnership problems influence each other longitudinally and to examine the influence of their trajectories on child adjustment difficulties at the age of three. Analyses were based on publicly available data from the German family panel "pairfam".N = 354 mothers were surveyed on depressive symptoms and partnership problems annually from pregnancy (T0) until child age three (T4). Child adjustment difficulties were assessed at age three. Results of latent change score modeling showed that partnership problems predicted change in PND symptoms at T0 and T3 while PND symptoms did not predict change in partnership problems. Child adjustment difficulties at age three were predicted by PND symptoms, but not by partnership problems. Partnership problems predicted externalizing, but not internalizing symptoms. Results underline the effects of family factors for the development of child adjustment difficulties and emphasize the importance of early interventions from pregnancy onwards
Additional information:	Unmapped bibliographic data: ET - 2023/11/17 [Field not mapped to EPrints] DB - Cambridge Core [Field not mapped to EPrints] DP - Cambridge University Press [Field not mapped to EPrints]

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