TY - JOUR
T1 - Depressed mothers' perceptions of infant behavior
AU - Field, Tiffany
AU - Morrow, Connie
AU - Adlestein, Diane
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by NIMH Research Scientist Award research grant (MH40779) to T.F. We thank all of the mothers and this experiment. Correspondence Pediatrics, University
PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - Sixty lower SES, black mothers with high and low Beck Depression Inventory scores were videotaped interacting with their infants. To determine whether the mothers with depressive symptoms perceived their infants' behavior more negatively, both the mothers and trained observers (naive to group assignment) coded the videotapes. The mothers' behavior was coded in the same way. The mothers' and observers' data streams were then analyzed for proportion of time the mothers and infants were in positive, neutral, and negative behavior states and the degree to which the mother and observer agreed (proportion of time they coded the same state and the coherence value based on cross-spectral data analyses). Both the mothers and observers coded the infants of symptomatic mothers more negatively. However, the symptomatic mothers coded their infants' behavior even more negatively than the observers did. In contrast, they coded their own behavior more positively than the observers did. Both groups of mothers underestimated their own negative behavior. Finally, coherence values were lower for the symptomatic mother-observer data streams than for the nonsymptomatic mother-observer data streams, suggesting less agreement between observers and symptomatic mothers on their infants' and their own behaviors.
AB - Sixty lower SES, black mothers with high and low Beck Depression Inventory scores were videotaped interacting with their infants. To determine whether the mothers with depressive symptoms perceived their infants' behavior more negatively, both the mothers and trained observers (naive to group assignment) coded the videotapes. The mothers' behavior was coded in the same way. The mothers' and observers' data streams were then analyzed for proportion of time the mothers and infants were in positive, neutral, and negative behavior states and the degree to which the mother and observer agreed (proportion of time they coded the same state and the coherence value based on cross-spectral data analyses). Both the mothers and observers coded the infants of symptomatic mothers more negatively. However, the symptomatic mothers coded their infants' behavior even more negatively than the observers did. In contrast, they coded their own behavior more positively than the observers did. Both groups of mothers underestimated their own negative behavior. Finally, coherence values were lower for the symptomatic mother-observer data streams than for the nonsymptomatic mother-observer data streams, suggesting less agreement between observers and symptomatic mothers on their infants' and their own behaviors.
KW - depressed mothers' perceptions
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U2 - 10.1016/0163-6383(93)80031-3
DO - 10.1016/0163-6383(93)80031-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:43949175196
VL - 16
SP - 99
EP - 108
JO - Infant Behavior and Development
JF - Infant Behavior and Development
SN - 0163-6383
IS - 1
ER -