The COVID-19 pandemic is an unexpected and major global event, with the potential to have many and varied impacts on child development. However, the implications of the pandemic for maternal depressive symptoms, early childhood temperament dimensions, and their associations, remain largely unknown. To investigate this, questionnaires were completed by mothers (N = 175) before and during the pandemic when their child was 10- and 16-months old (Study 1), and by an extended group of mothers with young children (6–48 months; 66 additional mothers) during the first and second national lockdowns in the United Kingdom in 2020 (Study 2). Results indicated that while maternal pandemic-related stress decreased over the first 6 months of the pandemic, there was an increase in mothers who reported feeling some level of pandemic-specific depression. Despite this, we did not observe an increase in the severity of global maternal depressive symptoms, or any negative impact of the pandemic on the development of temperament in infancy and early childhood.

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英国 COVID-19 大流行之前和期间的母亲抑郁症状和幼儿气质


COVID-19 大流行是一场意想不到的重大全球事件，可能对儿童发展产生多种不同的影响。然而，这一流行病对孕产妇抑郁症状、幼儿气质维度及其关联的影响在很大程度上仍然未知。为了调查这一点，在大流行之前和期间，当孩子 10 个月和 16 个月大时（研究 1），母亲们（ N = 175）完成了问卷调查，并且由一群有幼儿的母亲（6-48 个月）完成了调查问卷。 ; 2020 年英国第一次和第二次全国封锁期间增加了 66 名母亲（研究 2）。结果表明，虽然在大流行的前 6 个月内，与大流行相关的产妇压力有所下降，但报告感到某种程度的大流行特异性抑郁症的母亲有所增加。尽管如此，我们没有观察到全球孕产妇抑郁症状的严重程度有所增加，也没有观察到这一流行病对婴儿期和幼儿期气质发展的任何负面影响。