Older maternal age is associated with depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms in young adult female offspring.

Tearne, Jessica E.; Robinson, Monique; Jacoby, Peter; Allen, Karina L.; Cunningham, Nadia K.; Li, Jianghong; McLean, Neil J.

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“…Our results partially support this hypothesis. The findings that the children of older mothers were at higher risk for internalizing behaviors was consistent with Tearne et al (). Older mothers in Ukraine may feel that they have fewer economic, occupational, and educational opportunities than younger mothers and communicate this sentiment to their children.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Some researchers have found that children of younger mothers are at higher risk for internalizing problems (Fergusson & Woodward, 1999;Tearne et al, 2015). However, others have not found a relationship between maternal age and child mood disorders (Buizer-Voskamp et al, 2011;McGrath et al, 2014), and some have found that children who were born to older mothers had statistically higher levels of depression, anxiety, and stress in early adulthood than did those born to younger mothers (Tearne et al, 2016).…”

Section: Family and Mother Risk Factors (Microsystem Level)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Predictors of Internalizing Behaviors in Ukrainian Children

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Objective To (a) estimate the level of child internalizing problems in a sample of Ukrainian school-age children and (b) examine the relationships between child internalizing psychopathology and parenting practices, depression, alcohol use, and sociodemographics. Background Most research on child internalizing behaviors has used samples from high-income countries, but there is a lack of information about children’s behaviors and associated risk and protective factors from low- and middle-income countries such as Ukraine. An ecological–transactional model framework was used in this study to examine maternal and family-level factors associated with child internalizing behavior problems. Method Data were gathered from a community-based sample of Ukrainian mothers and children between 9 and 16 years of age (n = 251) using face-to-face interviews. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to examine the relationship among the independent variables (e.g., alcohol use, depression, and parenting behaviors) and children’s internalizing behaviors. Results Older children, especially boys, reported fewer internalizing problems. Increased internalizing symptomatology was associated with mothers’ older age, higher level of depression, lower use of positive parenting, and poor child monitoring and supervision. Conclusion These results raise awareness about the importance of child familial backgrounds while trying to address child mental health problems in Ukraine. Implications Family practitioners may want to help mothers learn and apply positive parenting and effective supervision and monitoring skills to help reduce their children’s depression and anxiety symptoms. Additionally, helping to decrease maternal depression may have a positive trickle-down effect on their children’s internalizing behaviors.

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Predictors of Internalizing Behaviors in Ukrainian Children

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“…Lack of direction aside, significant interaction effects indicate that cognitive resources play an important role in communication disturbances for patients but not controls, and this occurs above and beyond the influences of state affect. While prior studies have failed to find a significant effect of cognitive load on communication disturbances in chronic schizophrenia and early-stage psychosis (Melinder and Barch, 2003; Minor et al, 2016), the current findings are novel and add to the existing literature on the influential role of cognitive processes on semantically incoherent speech. Several possible explanations warrant mention for the present findings.…”

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“…Alternatively, mental fatigue might also improve communication coherence. It is highly important to note that these treatment implications are based on preliminary findings and that other investigators have failed to find cognitive reactivity (i.e., a reduction in communication disturbances following cognitive load) in SMI populations (Melinder and Barch, 2003; Minor et al, 2016). Thus, more research on the cognitive mechanisms underlying communication disturbances is needed in order to inform proper treatment implications.…”

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“…Third, investigators using experimental methods have found cognitive reactivity in speech, defined in terms of increased communication disturbances resulting from experimentally-manipulated cognitive load in healthy participants (Barch and Berenbaum, 1994; Kerns, 2007). While experimental studies have examined cognitive reactivity in patients, they have failed to include control groups (Barch and Berenbaum, 1996; Melinder and Barch, 2003) or a chronic SMI group (Minor et al, 2016); the present study addresses these limitations. Importantly, we previously evaluated the cognitive reactivity of negative speech symptoms (i.e., blunted vocal affect, alogia) using the same sample and task data as the current study (Cohen et al, 2014).…”

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The effect of limited cognitive resources on communication disturbances in serious mental illness

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Minor

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Semantically incoherent speech is a pernicious clinical feature of serious mental illness (SMI). The precise mechanisms underlying this deficit remain unclear. Prior studies have found that arousal of negative emotion exaggerates the severity of these communication disturbances; this has been coined “affective reactivity”. Recent research suggests that “cognitive reactivity” may also occur, namely reflecting reduced “on-line” cognitive resources in SMI. We tested the hypothesis that communication disturbances manifest as a function of limited cognitive resources in SMI above and beyond that associated with state affectivity. We also investigated individual differences in symptoms, cognitive ability, and trait affect that may be related to cognitive reactivity. We compared individuals with SMI (n=52) to nonpsychiatric controls (n=27) on a behavioral-based coding of communication disturbances during separate baseline and experimentally-manipulated high cognitive-load dual tasks. Controlling for state affective reactivity, a significant interaction was observed such that communication disturbances decreased in the SMI group under high cognitive-load. Furthermore, a reduction in communication disturbances was related to lower trait and state positive affectivity in the SMI group. Contrary to our expectations, limited cognitive resources temporarily relieved language dysfunction. Implications, particularly with respect to interventions, are discussed.

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Anxiety disorders across middle childhood and early adolescence in a UK population‐based cohort

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Background: Patterns of development and underlying factors explaining anxiety disorders in children and adolescents are under-researched, despite their high prevalence, impact and associations with other mental disorders. We aimed to a] understand the pattern and persistence of specific anxiety disorders; b] examine differing trajectories of symptoms of specific anxiety disorders and; c] examine socio-demographic and health-related predictors of persistent anxiety disorderspecific symptoms, across middle childhood to early adolescence. Methods: The current study used data from 8122 participants in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children birth cohort. The Development and Wellbeing Assessment questionnaire was administered to parents to capture child and adolescent anxiety total scores and DAWBA-derived diagnoses. Separation anxiety, specific phobia, social anxiety, acute stress reaction, and generalized anxiety at 8, 10 and 13 years were selected. Further, we included the following socio-demographic and health-related predictors: sex, birth weight, sleep difficulties at 3.5 years, ethnicity, family adversity, maternal age at birth, maternal postnatal anxiety, maternal postnatal depression, maternal bonding, maternal socio-economic status and maternal education. Results: Different anxiety disorders presented different prevalence and patterns of development over time. Further, latent class growth analyses yielded a trajectory characterized by individuals with persistent high levels of anxiety across childhood and adolescence; for specific phobia (high = 5.8%; moderate = 20.5%; low = 73.6%), social anxiety (high = 3.4%; moderate = 12.1%; low = 84.5%), acute stress reaction (high = 1.9%; low = 98.1%) and generalized anxiety (high = 5.4%; moderate = 21.7%; low = 72.9%). Finally, the risk factors associated with each of the persistent high levels of anxiety disorders were child sleeping difficulties and postnatal maternal depression and anxiety. Conclusions: Our findings show that a small group of children and young adolescents continue to suffer from frequent and severe anxiety. When considering treatment strategies for anxiety disorders in this group, children's sleep difficulties and postnatal maternal depression and anxiety need to be assessed as these may predict a more prolonged and severe course of illness. Danielle Hett and Clara Humpston are contributed equally and share second authorship.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Older maternal age is associated with depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms in young adult female offspring.

Cited by 40 publications

References 39 publications

Predictors of Internalizing Behaviors in Ukrainian Children

Predictors of Internalizing Behaviors in Ukrainian Children

The effect of limited cognitive resources on communication disturbances in serious mental illness

Anxiety disorders across middle childhood and early adolescence in a UK population‐based cohort

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