Citation

Lang AJ, Gartstein MA, Rodgers CS, Lebeck MM. J. Child Adolesc. Psychiatr. Nurs. 2010; 23(2): 100-110.

Affiliation

University of California San Diego and Psychologist at the VA San Diego Healthcare System of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health, San Diego, California. Washington State University, Pullman, Washington. University of California San Diego and Psychologist at the VA San Diego Healthcare System Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health, San Diego, California. University of California San Diego, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1744-6171.2010.00229.x

PMID

20500626

Abstract

The impact of maternal history of maltreatment and psychopathology on mother-child relationship, parenting, and infant temperament was evaluated. Women completed self-report measures addressing childhood trauma, psychopathology, infant-parent relationship, parenting, and infant temperament. Maternal physical abuse was associated with poorer mother-child interactions, increased vigilance, and difficulty recovering from distress among infants, whereas a history of emotional abuse was linked with less interactional dysfunction, lower levels of infant frustration, and more pleasure. Maternal depression was associated with infant temperament and attitudes about parenting. These findings suggest that maternal history of childhood abuse and psychopathology are important determinants of parenting and infant temperament.

Language: en