Sentences with phrase «maternal emotional unavailability»

Maternal emotional unavailability in early life predicted suicide attempts in adolescence.

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Maternal insensitivity and emotional unavailability influences the infant's ability to develop a capacity for arousal regulation.25 Insensitive maternal behaviour results in increased anger, distress and crying — together, these might reflect an infant's poor arousal regulation.26 PPD also alters the capacity to regulate the reciprocal interaction between mothers and their infant via two patterns: intrusiveness and witMaternal insensitivity and emotional unavailability influences the infant's ability to develop a capacity for arousal regulation.25 Insensitive maternal behaviour results in increased anger, distress and crying — together, these might reflect an infant's poor arousal regulation.26 PPD also alters the capacity to regulate the reciprocal interaction between mothers and their infant via two patterns: intrusiveness and witmaternal behaviour results in increased anger, distress and crying — together, these might reflect an infant's poor arousal regulation.26 PPD also alters the capacity to regulate the reciprocal interaction between mothers and their infant via two patterns: intrusiveness and withdrawal.

Extant research on the cognitive and social effects of depressive symptoms demonstrate that maternal depression can relate to offspring perceptions of emotional unavailability.

Thus, maternal depressive symptoms can lead to increased negative cognitions and behaviors which may signal emotional unavailability to children.

Maternal depression has been shown to be associated with many adverse health outcomes among the offspring of depressed women, including preterm birth, low birth weight, newborn irritability, developmental delays, somatic complaints, sleep problems, child abuse, and psychiatric and neurobehavioral disorders.8 — 21 Although considered to be attributable in part to genetic factors, some of the behavioral problems observed among children of depressed women are thought to arise from the negative parenting behaviors that these women display.22 — 24 Such negative parenting behaviors include inconsistent discipline and control, unavailability, and emotional insensitivity.22 — 24