Facial Expressivity in Infants of Depressed Mothers

Jeffrey Pickens; Tiffany Field

doi:10.1037/0012-1649.29.6.986

Facial Expressivity in Infants of Depressed Mothers

Jeffrey Pickens, Tiffany Field

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Facial expressions were examined in 84 3-month-old infants of mothers classified as depressed, nondepressed, or low scoring on the Beck Depression Inventory. Mother-infant dyads were videotaped during a 3-min face-to-face play interaction, and the videotapes were coded by using the AFFEX facial expression coding system. Infants of both depressed and low-scoring mothers showed significantly more sadness and anger expressions and fewer interest expressions than infants of nondepressed mothers.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	986-988
Number of pages	3
Journal	Developmental psychology
Volume	29
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.29.6.986
State	Published - Nov 1993

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Developmental and Educational Psychology
Life-span and Life-course Studies

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