Evaluating maternal psychopathology biases in reports of child temperament: An investigation of measurement invariance

Olino, Thomas M.; Guerra, Karina; Hayden, Elizabeth P.; Klein, D.

doi:10.31234/osf.io/tnwqs

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“…Second, data were self-reported via online survey, and it is possible that there was bias in participants' responses. This is particularly important for the reporting of infant temperament, although recent reports have found little evidence of systematic bias as a function of parental psychopathology (Olino et al, 2020). Finally, although we demonstrated that postnatal maternal depressive symptoms mediated the association between prenatal maternal somatization symptoms and infant negative affect, we did not assess postnatal somatization symptoms and, therefore, cannot determine whether somatization symptoms in the postnatal period would have been a stronger predictor of infant negative affect than were postnatal depressive symptoms.…”

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Maternal Prenatal Somatization, Postnatal Depression, and Offspring Temperament During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Buthmann¹,

Gotlib²

2021

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Background. Researchers have begun to examine the psychological toll of the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic. Data are now emerging indicating that there may be long-term adverse effects of the pandemic on new mothers and on children born during this period. Methods. In a longitudinal study of maternal mental health and child emotional development during the pandemic, we conducted online assessments of a cohort of women at two time points: when they were pregnant at the beginning of the surge of the pandemic in the United States (N=725), and approximately one year postpartum (N=296), examining prenatal and postnatal maternal mental health symptoms and infant temperament. Results. Prenatal maternal symptoms of somatization, the number of people in the household with COVID-19 symptoms, and postnatal maternal depressive symptoms all were positively associated with infant negative affect. Further, postnatal maternal depressive symptoms mediated the relation between prenatal maternal symptoms of somatization and infant negative affect. Conclusions. These findings have important implications for our understanding of the persistence of mental health symptoms in potentially vulnerable groups and of the emotional development of children who were in utero during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Maternal Prenatal Somatization, Postnatal Depression, and Offspring Temperament During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Buthmann¹,

Gotlib²

2021

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“…Questionnaire measures are known to induce measurement error due to biases in how parents perceive their child's anxiety levels due to their own anxiety (Kelley et al., 2017). However, recent work does suggest that the effect is not overwhelming (Olino et al., 2020). To reduce this potential measurement error, we used the ratings from both parents in calculating final scores of child social anxiety, whereas primary caregiver's ratings of their own social anxiety were used in the analyses.…”

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The social learning of threat and safety in the family: Parent‐to‐child transmission of social fears via verbal information

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Bockstaele

et al. 2022

Developmental Psychobiology

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Parental verbal threat (vs. safety) information regarding the social world may impact a child's fear responses, evident in subjective, behavioral, cognitive, and physiological indices of fear. In this study, primary caregivers provided standardized verbal threat or safety information to their child (N = 68, M = 5.27 years; 34 girls) regarding two strangers in the lab. Following this manipulation, children reported fear beliefs for each stranger. Physiological and behavioral reactions were recorded as children engaged with the two strangers (who were blind to their characterization) in a social interaction task. Child attention to the strangers was measured in a visual search task. Parents also reported their own, and their child's, social anxiety symptoms. Children reported more fear for the stranger paired with threat information, but no significant differences were found in observed child fear, attention, or heart rate. Higher social anxiety symptoms on the side of the parents and the children exacerbated the effect of parental verbal threat on observed fear. Our findings reveal a causal influence of parental verbal threat information only for child-reported fear and highlight the need to further refine the conditions under which acquired fear beliefs persist and generalize to behavior/physiology or get overruled by nonaversive real-life encounters.

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“…The validity of IBQ-R was still the concern when it was applied in diverse samples [91]. For questionnaires, bias may exist in maternal recall behavior (e.g., childhood trauma) or parents-reported child temperament (e.g., IBQ-R) because of maternal psychopathology [92].…”

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Associations of Mitochondrial Function, Stress, and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Early Life: A Systematic Review

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Early life stress is commonly experienced by infants, especially preterm infants that may impact their neurodevelopmental outcomes in their early and later life. Mitochondrial function/dysfunction may play an important role underlying the linkage of prenatal and postnatal stress and neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants. This review aims to provide insights on the relationship between early life stress and neurodevelopment, and the mechanisms of mitochondrial function/dysfunction that contribute to the neuropathology of stress. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) statement was used to develop this systematic review. PubMed, Scopus, PsycINFO, and Biosis databases were searched for primary research articles published between 2010-2021 that examined the relationships among mitochondrial function/dysfunction, infant stress, and neurodevelopment. Thirty studies were identified. There is evidence to support that mitochondrial function/dysfunction mediates the relationship between prenatal and postnatal stress and neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants. Maternal transgenerational transmission of mitochondrial bioenergetic patterns influenced prenatal stress induced neurodevelopmental outcomes and behavioral changes in infants. Multiple functionally relevant mitochondrial proteins, genes and polymorphisms were associated with stress exposure. This is the first review of the role that mitochondrial function/dysfunction plays in the association between stress and neurodevelopmental outcomes in full-term and preterm infants. Although multiple limitations were found based on the lack of data on the influence of biological sex, and due to invasive sampling, and lack of longitudinal data, many genes and proteins associated with mitochondrial function/dysfunction were found to influence neurodevelopmental outcomes in the early life of infants.

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Evaluating maternal psychopathology biases in reports of child temperament: An investigation of measurement invariance

Cited by 6 publications

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Maternal Prenatal Somatization, Postnatal Depression, and Offspring Temperament During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Maternal Prenatal Somatization, Postnatal Depression, and Offspring Temperament During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The social learning of threat and safety in the family: Parent‐to‐child transmission of social fears via verbal information

Associations of Mitochondrial Function, Stress, and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Early Life: A Systematic Review

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