Journal article
Maternal depression and the timing of mother-child dialogue
Infant and child development, Vol.32(1), e2389
02/07/2023
DOI: 10.1002/icd.2389
Abstract
Turn-taking in dialogue is an essential part of communication and early language experience. The prevalence of utterances and the timing of responses in dialogue were examined at 14 and 36 months of age in 104 mother-child dyads from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project (EHSREP). Mothers varied in their level of depression risk (measured with the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression scale; CES-D). Although maternal utterance rate did not vary significantly across any factors, the latency of mothers' responses to their children decreased with development (12 ms/month) and was significantly related to that of their own children (i.e., slow-responding children had slow-responding mothers). Mothers with higher levels of depressive symptoms were 11% slower in responding to their children than mothers with low depression risk, suggesting that the interactive timing of speech to children may be particularly sensitive to maternal depression, modifying the contingent properties of children's early language experience.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Maternal depression and the timing of mother-child dialogue
- Creators
- Nicholas A. Smith - University of MissouriValerie F. McDaniel - University of MissouriJean M. Ispa - University of MissouriBob McMurray - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Infant and child development, Vol.32(1), e2389
- Publisher
- Wiley
- DOI
- 10.1002/icd.2389
- ISSN
- 1522-7227
- eISSN
- 1522-7219
- Number of pages
- 13
- Grant note
- Richard Wallace Faculty Incentive Grant from the Mizzou Alumni Association Research and Creative Works Strategic Investment Program Grant from the University of Missouri System Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services School of Health Sciences, at the University of the Pacific
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 11/28/2022
- Date published
- 02/07/2023
- Academic Unit
- Communication Sciences and Disorders; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Otolaryngology; Linguistics; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984339459502771
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