Milgrom J, Westley D T, McCloud P I
Department of Clinical Psychology, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia.
J Paediatr Child Health. 1995 Jun;31(3):218-21. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1995.tb00789.x.
This study compared the crying behaviour of infants of depressed and non-depressed mothers at 3 and 6 months of age.
Twenty-nine depressed and 44 non-depressed mothers, their infants and partners participated in this study. Mothers were asked to complete 24-hour diaries of the amount their infants cried for 1 week.
The diurnal variations in crying patterns of infants of depressed and non-depressed mothers were not significantly different. However, infants of depressed mothers were found to cry significantly more in total per day than infants of non-depressed mothers at 3 months of age, but not at 6 months. The results could not be explained by differences in infant temperament.
Maternal depression may be a contributory factor to infant crying at 3 months of age.
本研究比较了抑郁母亲和非抑郁母亲的婴儿在3个月和6个月大时的哭泣行为。
29名抑郁母亲、44名非抑郁母亲及其婴儿和伴侣参与了本研究。母亲们被要求记录婴儿一周内每天24小时的哭泣时长。
抑郁母亲和非抑郁母亲的婴儿哭泣模式的昼夜变化没有显著差异。然而，发现抑郁母亲的婴儿在3个月大时每天总的哭泣次数明显多于非抑郁母亲的婴儿，但在6个月大时并非如此。结果无法用婴儿气质的差异来解释。
母亲抑郁可能是3个月大婴儿哭泣的一个促成因素。
