Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6842879 | Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology | 2007 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Relations between night waking in infants and depressive symptoms in their mothers at 6Â months postpartum were examined using the data from the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care. Although more depressive symptoms were only weakly correlated with a higher frequency of infant waking, longer wake times, and more total time awake, the rate of clinically significant depression scores was about double in mothers of chronically waking infants in comparison with mothers whose infants did not awaken during the night. The value of comparing subgroups to elucidate relations identified through correlations is discussed.
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Authors
Katherine Hildebrandt Karraker, Marion Young,