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29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

Mommy and Me, Let’s Get Cuddly: Depressive Symptoms, Maternal Affect and Infant Cuddliness

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · General

  • Alina Ostrander
    University of California, Irvine
  • Yasmin Kofman
    University of California, Irvine
  • Belinda Campos
    University of California, Irvine
  • Ilona Yim
    University of California, Irvine

Abstract

Maternal positive affect may protect against the negative correlates of postpartum depressive symptoms. In this study, maternal positive affect was positively associated with infant cuddliness. Analyses also found evidence of ethnic differences; effects were only observed among Latina women, not White women.

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