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Children of adolescent mothers: attachment representation, maternal depression, and later behavior problems
L Hubbs-Tait1, K P Hughes, A M Culp
1Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA.
Abstract:
Underlying the responses of 34 44-month-old children of adolescent mothers to five attachment narratives were two factors--departure and reunion. The departure factor included disorganized and insecure responses to parents' departure as well as disorganized responses to narratives about children's misbehavior and fear. Scores predicted children's externalizing behavior problems 10 months later and discriminated children in the clinical from those in the normal range for externalizing problems. Maternal depression explained significant additional variance in children's externalizing problems.
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