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KMID : 1037320150080020001
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Korean Journal of Infant Mental Health
2015 Volume.8 No. 2 p.1 ~ p.20
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Father-Infant Interaction Characteristics Depending on Degree of Depression of Fathers: Focused on Infants Aged Six to Eight Months
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Yoon Mi-Soon
Lee Kyung-Sook
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Abstract
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This study examined the relations between depression of fathers and interactions characteristics of young children. Subjects were six- to eight-month-old infants of the mothers, who consented to participate in a cohort study to identify causes of atopy and asthma, and their fathers. Eleven pairs of children and their fathers with a high degree of depression and twenty pairs of children and their father with a low degree of depression were selected. Data were analyzed by SPSS and the findings are as follows: First, in terms of father-child interactions between the two groups of fathers depending on the degree of depression, a higher degree of the fathers’ depression led to a lower degree of the children’s interactions. Second, in terms of atypical behavioral characteristics of fathers, fathers with a higher degree of depression showed a higher level of atypical behaviors. Third, in terms of the relations between fathers’ depression and children’s development, children of fathers with a higher degree of depression showed a lower degree of development in the global muscle. Fourth, a higher level of stress in daily life led to a higher degree of depression among fathers based on the regression analysis of the effect of daily life stress on depression.
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KEYWORD
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infant, father’s depression, father-infant interaction
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