Clifford Brandon Neil, Stockdale Laura A, Coyne Sarah M, Rainey Vanessa, Benitez Viridiana L
T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 873701, Tempe, AZ, 85287-3701, USA.
School of Family Life, Brigham Young University, 2091 JFSB, Provo, UT84602, USA.
J Child Lang. 2022 May;49(3):469-485. doi: 10.1017/S0305000921000131. Epub 2021 Apr 5.
Maternal depression and anxiety are potential risk factors to children's language environments and development. Though existing work has examined relations between these constructs, further work is needed accounting for both depression and anxiety and using more direct measures of the home language environment and children's language development. We examined 265 mother-infant dyads (49.6% female, Mage = 17.03 months) from a large city in the Western United States to explore the relations between self-reports of maternal depression and anxiety and observational indices of the home language environment and expressive language as captured by Language Environment Analysis (LENA) and parent-reported language comprehension and production. Results revealed maternal depressive symptoms to be negatively associated with home language environment and expressive language indices. Maternal anxiety symptoms were found to be negatively associated with children's parent-reported language production. These findings provide further evidence that maternal mental health modulates children's home language environments and expressive language.
母亲的抑郁和焦虑是影响儿童语言环境和发展的潜在风险因素。尽管现有研究已经探讨了这些因素之间的关系，但仍需要进一步的研究，同时考虑抑郁和焦虑，并采用更直接的家庭语言环境和儿童语言发展测量方法。我们对来自美国西部一个大城市的265对母婴（49.6%为女性，平均年龄17.03个月）进行了研究，以探讨母亲抑郁和焦虑的自我报告与家庭语言环境的观察指标以及语言环境分析（LENA）所捕捉的表达性语言、家长报告的语言理解和表达之间的关系。结果显示，母亲的抑郁症状与家庭语言环境和表达性语言指标呈负相关。研究发现，母亲的焦虑症状与儿童家长报告的语言表达呈负相关。这些发现进一步证明，母亲的心理健康会调节儿童的家庭语言环境和表达性语言。
