Journal article

Major depression as a predictor of the intergenerational transmission of attachment security: Findings from a pregnancy cohort study

M Galbally, SJ Watson, A Tharner, M Luijk, G Blankley, KK MacMillan, J Power, AJ Lewis

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry | Published : 2022

Abstract

Objective: Understanding the relationship between attachment and mental health has an important role in informing management of perinatal mental disorders and for infant mental health. It has been suggested that experiences of attachment are transmitted from one generation to the next. Maternal sensitivity has been proposed as a mediator, although findings have not been as strong as hypothesised. A meta-analysis suggested that this intergenerational transmission of attachment may vary across populations with lower concordance between parent and infant attachment classifications in clinical compared to community samples. However, no previous study has examined major depression and adult attac..

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Funding Acknowledgements

The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: This study is supported through the 2012 National Priority Founding Round of Beyondblue in a 3-year research grant (ID 519240), a 2015 National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) project grant for 5 years (APP1106823) and a 2015 RANZJP Pat, Toni and Peter Kinsman Research Scholarship awarded to Dr Josephine Power. Financial support has also been obtained from the Academic Research and Development Grants, Mercy Health and Centre for Mental Health and Well-Being, Deakin University.