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| Ace1 |
Posted - 02/12/2013 : 10:54:03
New study below:
Mothers' Perinatal Negative Thinking Has Intergenerational Effects
It is associated 18 years later with their adolescents' negative cognitive style.
Cognitive theories of depression have focused on the roles of negative belief systems regarding the self, world, and future and on more fundamental cognitive tendencies such as bias toward negative stimuli. Although both genetic and environmental factors influence cognitive style, the major determinants are currently attributed to early experiences, particularly to explanations for events given by primary caregivers, especially mothers. Using data from a large-scale U.K. longitudinal study, investigators compared cognitive styles of 2528 mothers assessed during their pregnancies in the early 1990s with their offspring's subsequent cognitive style and depression ratings, collected at the mean age of 18 years.
The researchers controlled for variables associated with cognitive style (age, education level, social class, parity, smoking, maternal depression ratings during pregnancy, and offspring gender and depression) and used several analytic models. Maternal perinatal depressogenic cognitive style correlated with offspring cognitive style; one standard deviation (SD) of maternal cognitive style accounted for 0.1 SD of offspring cognitive style. Maternal depression scores were associated with offspring depression scores. Offspring cognitive style was associated with offspring depression scores. A univariate analysis correlated maternal depression and offspring cognitive style. Maternal cognitive style correlated with offspring depression, but not after adjustment for offspring cognitive style. In path-analytic models, maternal and offspring cognitive styles accounted for 21% of the association between maternal and offspring depression.
Comment: This study lacks information on the cognitive styles of the mother during her child's development and on potential genetic contributions to cognitive styles shared by the mother and child. Nevertheless, the findings suggest that therapeutic attention to maternal cognitive style and associated parenting approaches can diminish risk for depressogenic cognitions and clinical depression in the offspring.
— Joel Yager, MD
Published in Journal Watch Psychiatry February 11, 2013
Citation(s):
Pearson RM et al. Association between maternal depressogenic cognitive style during pregnancy and offspring cognitive style 18 years later. Am J Psychiatry 2013 Jan 15; [e-pub ahead of print]. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.12050673)
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| All1Spirit |
Posted - 02/12/2013 : 16:42:02
And if the mother is producing stress or anxiety hormones while the child in utero it alters the babies nervous system
"Around and Around the Circle We Go....
The Answer Sits In The Middle and Knows..." |
| shawnsmith |
Posted - 02/12/2013 : 15:13:26
Check out the work of Jim Folk at www.anxietycentre.com
He very convincingly argues that anxiety is a learned behavior and not due to some chemical imbalance which requires medication to correct. |
| RageSootheRatio |
Posted - 02/12/2013 : 11:19:52
Really interesting, Ace1! One person who is doing something about this is Laurel Mellin, (developer of Emotional Brain Training - EBT - for the last 30 years) out of UCSF (Univ Calif, San Francisco). I think she is currently doing an EBT research study with pregnant moms which is funded by NIH. |
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