We assessed whether the negative association between maternal postpartum depression (PPD) and infants' development of joint attention (gaze following) generalizes from WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) to Majority World contexts. The study was conducted in Bhutan (N = 105, M = 278 days, 52% males) but also draws from publicly available Swedish data (N = 113, M = 302 days, 49% males). We demonstrate that Bhutanese and Swedish infants' development follows the same trajectory. However, Bhutanese infants' gaze following were not related to maternal PPD, which the Swedish infants' were. The results support the notion that there are protecting factors built into the interdependent family model. Despite all the benefits of being raised in a modern welfare state, it seems like Swedish infants, to an extent, are more vulnerable to maternal mental health than Bhutanese infants. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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母亲产后抑郁症在不同文化中对婴儿的共同注意力有不同的影响。

我们评估了产妇产后抑郁 (PPD) 与婴儿共同注意（注视）发展之间的负相关是否从 WEIRD（西方、受过教育、工业化、富裕和民主）推广到多数世界背景。该研究在不丹进行（N = 105，M = 278 天，52% 男性），但也借鉴了瑞典的公开数据（N = 113，M = 302 天，49% 男性）。我们证明不丹和瑞典婴儿的发育遵循相同的轨迹。然而，不丹婴儿的注视与瑞典婴儿的母体 PPD 无关。结果支持这样一种观点，即相互依存的家庭模型中内置了保护因素。尽管在现代福利国家长大有种种好处，但在某种程度上，瑞典婴儿似乎 比不丹婴儿更容易受到母亲心理健康的影响。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。