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The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 6 representative gaps

• Social Skill in Self-Assertive Strategies of Toddlers With Depressed and Nondepressed Mothers (2005) · doi

  The chronicity and severity of toddlers' exposure to maternal depression did not account for more pronounced differences in toddlers' skill in self-assertion toward mothers; however, toddlers exposed to more chronic courses of depression demonstrated less skill in their self-assertion toward the examiner.

  Keywords: toddlers depression skill self assertion toward chronicity severity exposure maternal account pronounced differences mothers exposed
• Impact of Maternal Depression on Infant Nutritional Status and Illness (2004) · doi

  BACKGROUND: The risk for emotional and behavioral problems is known to be high among children of depressed mothers, but little is known about the impact of prenatal and postnatal depression on the physical health of infants.

  Keywords: known background risk emotional behavioral problems high among children depressed mothers little impact prenatal postnatal
• Severity, Chronicity, and Timing of Maternal Depression and Risk for Adolescent Offspring Diagnoses in a Community Sample (2003) · doi

  BACKGROUND: Risk for depression and other disorders is known to be high among children of depressed mothers, but little is known about the parameters of severity, chronicity, and timing of depression and its effects on children.

  Keywords: depression known children background risk disorders high among depressed mothers little parameters severity chronicity timing
• Postnatal Mother-to-Infant Attachment in Subclinically Depressed Mothers: Dyads at Risk? (2016) · doi

  However, potential confounding effects of mother's history of own rearing experiences or infant temperament on the link between depressive symptoms and postnatal mother-to-infant attachment have not yet been investigated.

  Keywords: mother infant potential confounding effects history rearing experiences temperament link depressive symptoms postnatal attachment investigated
• Parent–child interaction among depressed fathers and mothers: Impact on child functioning. (1997) · doi

  Relatively little is known about whether children of depressed mothers versus fathers demonstrate similar difficulties and whether parent-child interaction moderates the effects of maternal depression, paternal depression, or both.

  Keywords: whether depression relatively little known children depressed mothers versus fathers demonstrate similar difficulties parent child
• Genetic and environmental influences on the transmission of parental depression to children’s depression and conduct disturbance: an extended Children of Twins study (2010) · doi

  BACKGROUND: Despite the increased risk of depression and conduct problems in children of depressed parents, the mechanism by which parental depression affects their children's behavioral and emotional functioning is not well understood.

  Keywords: depression children background despite increased risk conduct problems depressed parents mechanism parental affects behavioral emotional