101. Maternal mental health and child problem behaviours: disentangling the role of depression and borderline personality dysfunction
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Huntley, Fay, Wright, Nicola, Pickles, Andrew, Sharp, Helen, and Hill, Jonathan
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Paper ,medicine.medical_specialty ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Social and Behavioral Sciences ,behavioral disciplines and activities ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,mental disorders ,medicine ,Psychology ,Personality ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Association (psychology) ,Psychiatry ,Borderline personality disorder ,Depression (differential diagnoses) ,media_common ,Pregnancy ,05 social sciences ,Creative commons ,medicine.disease ,Mental health ,030227 psychiatry ,FOS: Psychology ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Developmental Psychology ,Attribution ,050104 developmental & child psychology - Abstract
BackgroundIt is not known whether associations between child problem behaviours and maternal depression can be accounted for by comorbid borderline personality disorder (BPD) dysfunction.AimTo examine the contributions of maternal depression and BPD symptoms to child problem behaviours.MethodDepression trajectories over the fist-year postpartum were generated using repeated measurement from a general population sample of 997 mothers recruited in pregnancy. In a stratified subsample of 251, maternal depression and BPD symptoms were examined as predictors of child problem behaviours at 2.5 years.ResultsChild problem behaviours were predicted by a high maternal depression trajectory prior to the inclusion of BPD symptoms. This association was no longer significant after the introduction of BPD symptoms.ConclusionsRisks for child problem behaviours currently attributed to maternal depression may arise from more persistent and pervasive difficulties found in borderline personality dysfunction.
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- 2017