Speaking of State of Mind: Maternal Mental Health Predicts Children's Home Language Environment and Expressive Language.
| Autor: | Clifford BN; T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 873701, Tempe, AZ, 85287-3701, USA., Stockdale LA; School of Family Life, Brigham Young University, 2091 JFSB, Provo, UT84602, USA., Coyne SM; School of Family Life, Brigham Young University, 2091 JFSB, Provo, UT84602, USA., Rainey V; Department of Psychology, University of West Florida, 11000 University Parkway, Pensacola, FL32514, USA., Benitez VL; Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, 950 S. McAllister Ave., Tempe, AZ85287, USA. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Journal of child language [J Child Lang] 2022 May; Vol. 49 (3), pp. 469-485. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Apr 05. |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0305000921000131 |
| Abstrakt: | 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. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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