Maternal Postnatal Depressive Symptoms and Offspring Emotional and Behavioral Development at Age 7 Years in a UK Birth Cohort: The Role of Paternal Involvement

Iryna Culpin; Gemma Hammerton; Alan Stein; Marc H. Bornstein; Henning Tiemeier; Tim Cadman; Eivor Fredriksen; Jonathan Evans; Tina Miller; Esther Dermott; Jon Heron; Hannah M. Sallis; Rebecca M. Pearson

doi:10.1037/dev0001482

Maternal Postnatal Depressive Symptoms and Offspring Emotional and Behavioral Development at Age 7 Years in a UK Birth Cohort: The Role of Paternal Involvement

Iryna Culpin^*
, Gemma Hammerton
, Alan Stein
, Marc H. Bornstein
, Henning Tiemeier
, Tim Cadman
, Eivor Fredriksen
, Jonathan Evans
, Tina Miller
, Esther Dermott
, Jon Heron
, Hannah M. Sallis
, Rebecca M. Pearson

^*Corresponding author for this work

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry / Psychology

Bristol Medical School
Manchester Metropolitan University
University of Oxford
University of the Witwatersrand
National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA
UNICEF (Maldives)
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Oslo University Hospital
Oxford Brookes University

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There is considerable variability in developmental outcomes of children whose mothers experience depression. Few longitudinal studies have examined contributions of paternal involvement in the association between maternal postnatal depression (PND) and offspring development. We examined pathways from maternal PND at 8 weeks (Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale; total score) to offspring emotional and behavioral development at 7 years (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire; total score) through behavioral, affective, and cognitive dimensions of paternal involvement in a U.K.-based birth cohort (Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children; n = 3,434). Analyses were adjusted for baseline confounders and paternal PND (Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale; total score) as an intermediate confounder. Maternal PND was strongly associated with offspring development, but this association was not mediated by the combination of all indirect pathways through various dimensions of paternal involvement. Only father–child conflict emerged as a risk factor for adverse offspring development and as a mediator in the association between maternal PND and offspring development (albeit the effect size was small). If found causal, interventions that reduce father–child conflict may reduce the risk of adverse development in offspring of mothers with PND.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	770-785
Number of pages	16
Journal	Developmental Psychology
Volume	59
Issue number	4
Early online date	Nov 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001482
Publication status	Published - 17 Nov 2022

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The U.K. Medical Research Council and Wellcome Trust (217065/Z/19/Z) and the University of Bristol provide core support for the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). This publication is the work of the authors, and Iryna Culpin will serve as guarantor for the contents of this article. This research was funded in whole by the Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship in Humanities and Social Science (212664/Z/18/Z) awarded to Iryna Culpin. For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright license to any author accepted manuscript version arising from this submission.

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Culpin, I., Hammerton, G., Stein, A., Bornstein, M. H., Tiemeier, H., Cadman, T., Fredriksen, E., Evans, J., Miller, T., Dermott, E., Heron, J., Sallis, H. M., & Pearson, R. M. (2022). Maternal Postnatal Depressive Symptoms and Offspring Emotional and Behavioral Development at Age 7 Years in a UK Birth Cohort: The Role of Paternal Involvement. Developmental Psychology, 59(4), 770-785. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001482

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