@article{ref1,
title="Maternal depression, child frontal asymmetry, and child affective behavior as factors in child behavior problems",
journal="Journal of child psychology and psychiatry",
year="2006",
author="Forbes, Erika E. and Shaw, Daniel S. and Fox, Nathan A. and Cohn, Jeffrey F. and Silk, Jennifer S. and Kovács, Mária",
volume="47",
number="1",
pages="79-87",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Despite findings that parent depression increases children's risk for internalizing and externalizing problems, little is known about other factors that combine with parent depression to contribute to behavior problems. METHODS: As part of a longitudinal, interdisciplinary study on childhood-onset depression (COD), we examined the association of mother history of COD, child frontal electroencephalogram asymmetry, and affective behavior with children's concurrent behavior problems. RESULTS: Children in the COD group had higher anxious/depressed and aggressive problems than did children in the control group, but this was qualified by a COD-by-asymmetry interaction effect. For COD but not control children, left frontal asymmetry was associated with both anxious/depressed and aggressive child problems. Children with left frontal asymmetry and low affect regulation behavior had higher anxious/depressed problems than did those with high affect regulation behavior. Boys with left frontal asymmetry had higher aggressive problems than did those with right frontal asymmetry. CONCLUSIONS: In children of mothers with COD, physiological and behavioral indices of affect regulation may constitute risks for behavior problems.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0021-9630",
doi="10.1111/j.1469-7610.2005.01442.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2005.01442.x"
}