Maternal lifetime history of depression and depressive symptoms in the prenatal and early postnatal period do not predict infant-mother attachment quality in a large, population-based Dutch cohort study

Attachment and Human Development

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 63-81

  Tharner, Anne ^a,b   Luijk, Maartje P C M ^b,c   van IJzendoorn, Marinus H ^b,c   Bakermans Kranenburg, Marian J ^b   Jaddoe, Vincent W V ^a   Hofman, Albert ^a   Verhulst, Frank C ^a   Tiemeier, Henning ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cohort; disorganized attachment; infant mother attachment; maternal depression; population based

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NETHERLANDS; OBJECT RELATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; NETHERLANDS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84859928058     PISSN: 14616734     EISSN: 14692988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616734.2012.636659     Document Type: Article

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