What is it about?
This study is about the reciprocal relation between maternal and paternal depressive symptomatology, specifically how symptoms in one partner relate to subsequent symptom level changes in the other partner in the perinatal period. The study is also about differential susceptibility to negative mood states among parents.
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Why is it important?
The work is timely because it highlights fathers’ vulnerability to symptom development in instances of maternal depressive states around childbirth, and implies efforts of intervention to address both parents’ needs. It is also a call for attention to parents with heightened susceptibility to prolonged depression contagion processes.
Perspectives
In my perspective this study is of special interest in highligthing a possible connection between partner-attachment styles and the contagion of depressive states in vulnerable parents.
Professor Lars Smith
University of Oslo
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This page is a summary of: Depressive symptom contagion in the transition to parenthood: Interparental processes and the role of partner-related attachment., Journal of Abnormal Psychology, April 2019, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/abn0000429.
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