Maternal Depressive Symptoms During the Pre- and Postnatal Periods and Infant Attention to Emotional Faces

• Kataja, Eeva-Leena ^[1] ; Karlsson, Linnea ^[2] ; Leppänen, Jukka M. ^[3] ; Pelto, Juho ^[2] ; Häikiö, Tuomo ^[2] ; Nolvi, Saara ^[2] ; Pesonen, Henri ^[4] ; Parsons, Christine E. ^[5] ; Hyönä, Jukka ^[1] ; Karlsson, Hasse ^[2]
  1. [1] University of Turku
  2. [2] University of Turku and Turku University Hospital
  3. [3] University of Tampere
  4. [4] Aalto University
  5. [5] Aarhus University

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• Localización: Child development, ISSN 0009-3920, Vol. 91, Nº. 2, 2020, págs. 475-480
• Idioma: inglés
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  • We examined how infants? attentional disengagement from happy, fearful, neutral, and phase-scrambled faces at 8 months, as assessed by eye tracking, is associated with trajectories of maternal depressive symptoms from early pregnancy to 6 months postpartum (decreasing n = 48, increasing n = 34, and consistently low symptom levels n = 280). The sample (mother?infant dyads belonging to a larger FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study) was collected between 5/2013?6/2016. The overall disengagement probability from faces to distractors was not related to maternal depressive symptoms, but fear bias was heightened in infants whose mothers reported decreasing or increasing depressive symptoms. Exacerbated attention to fearful faces in infants of mothers with depressive symptoms may be independent of the timing of the symptoms in the pre- and postnatal stages.