Assessing longitudinal pathways between maternal depressive symptoms, parenting self-esteem and infant temperament

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11210/19:10396047

Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0220633" target="_blank" >https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0220633</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220633" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0220633</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Assessing longitudinal pathways between maternal depressive symptoms, parenting self-esteem and infant temperament

Original language description

Previous studies of relations between parenting self-concepts, parental adjustment and child temperament have been ambiguous regarding the direction of influence, and have rarely followed families from pregnancy through the first year of life. The current study examines change and stability in maternal depressive symptoms, parenting competences and child temperament through the perinatal period until nine months postpartum. Czech mothers (N = 282) participated at three time points: the third trimester of pregnancy (Time 1), six weeks (Time 2) and nine months postpartum (Time 3). Questionnaire data concerned depressive symptoms (T1, T2, T3), maternal parenting self-esteem (T1, T2) and sense of competence (T3), and child temperament (T2, T3). A path model was used to examine concurrent and longitudinal relations between these variables. The analyses indicated longitudinal stability of all constructs, as well as concurrent relations between them. Longitudinal relations supported child-to-parent, rather than parent-to-child, effects: child difficult temperament predicted decreases in perceived maternal parenting competences, but maternal variables did not predict change in infant temperament. In addition, we observed weak mutual relations between maternal depression levels and parenting competences, such that maternal depression diminished perceived parenting competences that in turn contributed to higher levels of depression. Mothers’ confidence in their ability to parent is influenced by their experience with a difficult infant and by their depressive symptoms during the child’s first year of life. Depressive symptoms are, in turn, aggravated by mothers’ low perceived competences in the parenting role.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PLoS ONE

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

8

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

1-18

UT code for WoS article

000484993600025

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85071156702