Jennings Katherine E, Piper Madeleine E, Kling Jennifer L, Bruner Amanda, Brooker Rebecca J
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Texas A&M University.
Emotion. 2024 Dec;24(8):1998-2003. doi: 10.1037/emo0001413. Epub 2024 Aug 29.
Prenatal symptoms of depression in mothers are associated with infants' emotional reactivity. Context-incongruent reactivity, comprising mismatches between the eliciting context and emotional reactions, predicts negative long-term socioemotional outcomes in children. However, the etiology of context-incongruent reactivity is largely unknown, obscuring a full understanding of its potential role as a vulnerability in models outlining the transmission of risk for emotion difficulties from mothers to offspring. We tested mothers' ( = 92) prenatal depressive symptoms as prospective predictors of infants' context-incongruent emotion. Greater prenatal symptoms predicted more context-incongruent negativity in infants even when controlling for context-congruent affect. Findings demonstrate a novel utility of context-incongruent emotion as one possible vulnerability linking mothers' prenatal depression to socioemotional difficulties in offspring. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
母亲产前抑郁症状与婴儿的情绪反应性有关。情境不一致反应，包括引发情境与情绪反应之间的不匹配，预示着儿童负面的长期社会情感结果。然而，情境不一致反应的病因在很大程度上尚不清楚，这使得人们难以全面理解其在描述母亲向后代传递情绪问题风险的模型中作为一种易感性的潜在作用。我们测试了母亲（n = 92）的产前抑郁症状，将其作为婴儿情境不一致情绪的前瞻性预测指标。即使在控制情境一致情感的情况下，更高的产前症状也预示着婴儿更多的情境不一致消极情绪。研究结果表明，情境不一致情绪具有一种新的作用，即作为将母亲产前抑郁与后代社会情感困难联系起来的一种可能的易感性。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2024美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
