Does depression and low literacy in mothers affect their interactions with their 4-month old infants?

详细信息   

• 作者：Cook ; Virginia Holmes.
• 学历：Doctor
• 年：2009
• 导师：Greenwood, Charles R.,eadvisorCarta, Judith J.ecommittee memberKnowlton, Earleecommittee memberMarkham, Paul L.ecommittee memberUtley, Cheryl A.ecommittee member
• 毕业院校：University of Kansas
• Department：Special Education
• ISBN：9781109079951
• CBH：3350310
• Country：USA
• 语种：English
• FileSize：808637
• Pages：102

文摘

Existing literature points to the critical importance of the frequency and quality of interactions between parents and their young children and developmental outcomes. The literature reports that both maternal depression and intellectual disabilities are risks to these normal processes of interaction between parents and their young children. Most available studies have examined these relationships in clinical or laboratory settings, rather than natural settings. Investigated in an existing dataset from a national study of parent-child interaction was the extent that these relationships in mother-infant dyads were mediated by these risks. In lieu of more traditional measures of intellectual disability (e.g., IQ), available measures of very low literacy were used as "proxy" measures for intellectual disability. Statistical methods were used to model the effect of these factors on the quality of parent-child interaction. Implications are discussed.