@article{ref1,
title="Mothers' early depressive symptoms predict children's low social competence in first grade: mediation by children's social cognition",
journal="Journal of child psychology and psychiatry",
year="2014",
author="Wang, Yiji and Dix, Theodore",
volume="56",
number="2",
pages="183-192",
abstract="BACKGROUND: This study examined whether social-cognitive processes in children mediate relations between mothers' depressive symptoms across the first 3 years and children's first-grade social competence. Three maladaptive cognitions were examined: self-perceived social inadequacy, hostile attribution, and aggressive response generation. <br><br>METHOD: One thousand three hundred and sixty-four mothers reported depressive symptoms across early development, first-grade children reported target social cognitions, and children's first-grade social competence was observed and reported by multiple informants. <br><br>RESULTS: Findings demonstrated that (a) mothers' average depressive symptoms from 6 to 36 months predicted children's maladaptive social cognition in first grade, (b) low mother-child responsiveness mediated this relation, and (c) maladaptive social cognition mediated relations between mothers' early depressive symptoms and low first-grade social competence independent of later depressive symptoms. <br><br>CONCLUSION: When mothers' depressive symptoms occur early in development, they may set in motion low-responsive dyadic patterns that promote children's maladaptive social cognition and, as a result, low social competence.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0021-9630",
doi="10.1111/jcpp.12297",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12297"
}