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Meiser, Susanne ORCID: 0000-0002-1311-9743, Zietlow, Anna-Lena ORCID: 0000-0002-7278-5711, Reck, Corinna and Traeuble, Birgit (2015). The impact of postpartum depression and anxiety disorders on children's processing of facial emotional expressions at pre-school age. Arch. Womens Ment. Health, 18 (5). S. 707 - 717. WIEN: SPRINGER WIEN. ISSN 1435-1102

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Abstract

To enhance understanding of impaired socio-emotional development in children of postpartum depressed or anxious mothers, this longitudinal study addressed the question of whether maternal postpartum depression and anxiety disorders result in deficits in children's processing of facial emotional expressions (FEEs) at pre-school age. Thirty-two mothers who had fulfilled Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM-IV) criteria for postpartum depression and/or anxiety disorder and their pre-school aged children were tested for FEE processing abilities and compared to a healthy control group (n = 29). Child assessments included separate tasks for emotion recognition and emotion labelling. Mothers completed an emotion recognition test as well as the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders I (SCID-I). Children of postpartum depressed and/or anxious mothers performed significantly worse than control children at labelling, but not at recognizing facial expressions of basic emotions. Emotion labelling at pre-school age was predicted by child age and maternal postpartum mental health, but neither current maternal mental health nor current maternal emotion recognition was associated with child FEE processing. Results point to a specific importance of early social experiences for the development of FEE labelling skills. However, further studies involving sensitive measures of emotion recognition are needed to determine if there might also exist subtle effects on FEE recognition.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Meiser, Susanne UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-1311-9743 UNSPECIFIED Zietlow, Anna-Lena UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-7278-5711 UNSPECIFIED Reck, Corinna UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Traeuble, Birgit UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-392419
DOI:	10.1007/s00737-015-0519-y
Journal or Publication Title:	Arch. Womens Ment. Health
Volume:	18
Number:	5
Page Range:	S. 707 - 717
Date:	2015
Publisher:	SPRINGER WIEN
Place of Publication:	WIEN
ISSN:	1435-1102
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language MATERNAL DEPRESSION; POSTNATAL DEPRESSION; INFANT INTERACTION; STATE TALK; MOTHERS; IDENTIFICATION; SYMPTOMS; BEHAVIOR; RECOGNITION; KNOWLEDGE Multiple languages Psychiatry Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/39241