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Mother and infant affective involvement states and maternal depression

✍ Scribed by Ouriel Rosenblum; Philippe Mazet; Hervé Bénony


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
139 KB
Volume
18
Category
Article
ISSN
0163-9641

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✦ Synopsis


This study shows two different dimensional types of maternal depression, one dull and slow, the other stressed and irritable. When the quality of the infant attachment to mother is assessed, it is noted that the dimensional aspect of the maternal depression can be of some importance in the quality of the attachment. In fact, children are more inclined to develop an insecure -ambivalent attachment to their stressed depressed mothers, while children of slow depressed mothers are more insecure -avoiding. Thus, the dimensions of maternal depression can be an indicator of the type of insecure attachment of the infant at one year of age. We have also found that insecure children of depressed mothers express very little joy in the course of face-to-face interactions. A parallel can be established between the characteristics of the different affective dimensions of the maternal depression, the affective involvement state level of the partners, their synchrony or non-synchrony, the affective expression of the baby, and the type of insecure attachment to the mother. Thus, affective interaction may be an indicator of the child's development, both to assess the interaction and to evaluate the type of attachment shown by the child, indicating that previous interactive patterns have been internalized. RESUMEN: Este estudio muestra dos diferentes tipos dimensionales de depresión maternal, uno débil y lento, el otro tenso e irritable. Cuando se evalúa la calidad de la afectividad que el infante tiene hacia la madre, se nota que el aspecto dimensional de la depresión materna pudiera tener alguna importancia en dicha calidad de la unión afectiva. De hecho, los niños se inclinan más a desarrollar una afectividad "inseguraambivalente" con las madres que se muestran tensas y deprimidas, mientras que los niños de madres cuya depresión es lenta son más "inseguros-esquivos." Por tanto, las dimensiones de depresión maternal pudieran ser un indicador del tipo de afectividad insegura que el infante tiene a la edad de un año. También hemos encontrado que los "inseguros" niños de madres depresivas expresan muy poca alegría durante las interacciones cara a cara. Un paralelo se puede establecer entre las características de las diferentes dimensiones afectivas de la depresión maternal, el nivel de participación afectiva de los miembros de la relación, su sincronía o falta de sincronía, la expresión 350 This work has been graciously supported by the Claude Bernard Association. We wish to express our very sincere thanks to & Mrs. F. cukier-Hemeury, Mrs. L. Conquy, and Mr. J. Latoch who have played a great part in the elaboration and the realization of this study, to Mrs. G. Bradshaw for re-reading the English text and to Mr. L. Fossey for the statistical processing of the results. Correspondence should be addressed to O. Rosenblum,


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