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Depression and Anxiety in the Postnatal Period

An Examination of Infants’ Home Language Environment, Vocalizations, and Expressive Language Abilities

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ID21301367
AuthorsRuth Brookman (0000-0002-6060-1989, Western Sydney University, corresponding author), Marina Kalashnikova (0000-0002-7924-8687, Western Sydney University), Janet Conti (0000-0002-5064-8003, Western Sydney University), Nan Xu Rattanasone (0000-0002-2916-8435, Macquarie University), Kerry‐Ann Grant (0000-0003-4674-9140, Health Education and Training Institute), Kerry-Ann Grant (Health Education and Training Institute), Katherine Demuth (0000-0003-3884-8886, Macquarie University), Denis Burnham (0000-0002-1980-3458, Western Sydney University)
Year2020
Volume91
Issue6
Pagese1211-e1230
Publication date2020-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueChild Development (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0009-3920 • E-ISSN: 1467-8624
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/cdev.13421
PMID32745250
OpenAlexW3046659789
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited72

This longitudinal study investigated the effects of maternal emotional health concerns, on infants’ home language environment, vocalization quantity, and expressive language skills. Mothers and their infants (at 6 and 12 months; 21 mothers with depression and or anxiety and 21 controls) provided day-long home-language recordings. Compared with controls, risk group recordings contained fewer mother–infant conversational turns and infant vocalizations, but daily number of adult word counts showed no group difference. Furthermore, conversational turns and infant vocalizations were stronger predictors of infants’ 18-month vocabulary size than depression and anxiety measures. However, anxiety levels moderated the effect of conversational turns on vocabulary size. These results suggest that variability in mothers’ emotional health influences infants’ language environment and later language ability

Anxiety · Depression (economics) · Developmental psychology · Language acquisition · Language development · Linguistics · Longitudinal study · Psychiatry · Vocabulary · Vocabulary development · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Infant Health and Development · Language Development and Disorders · Medicine · Psychology

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