Preadolescents’ Recall of Their Mothers’ Emotions: Associations between Positive and Negative Emotions and Links to Depression

We found that preadolescents’ recall for one maternal emotion relates to greater recall of other emotions regardless of valence, following an experimental task (N=112; M age=11.69). Preadolescents’ greater recall of maternal negative emotions related to preadolescents’ greater depressive symptoms. Results suggest the importance of addressing recall of emotions in preadolescence.