Social exclusion, infant behavior, social isolation, and maternal expectations independently predict maternal depressive symptoms

Predicting maternal reactivity/sensitivi

Predicting maternal reactivity/sensitivity: The role of infant emotionality, maternal depressiveness/anxiety, and social support

✍ Bettina Mertesacker; Ulla Bade; Antje Haverkock; Ursula Pauli-Pott 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 220 KB 👁 1 views

## Abstract It was hypothesized that an accumulation of unfavorable conditions, i.e., high negative emotionality and low positive emotionality of the infant, maternal depression and anxiety, and lacking social and emotional support can attenuate mothers' reactivity/sensitivity. Maternal reactivity/