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The quality of early relational health modifies the effect of early life stress on child emerging psychopathology

2026-01-24 pediatrics Title + abstract only
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BackgroundEarly relational health (ERH) is thought to buffer the association between early life stress (ELS) and child psychopathology, but limited work has directly tested this hypothesis. ObjectiveWe evaluate mother-infant emotional connection, a facet of ERH, as a buffer of combined and individual impacts of specific ELS exposures (maternal mental health and interpartner conflict) on child psychopathology. MethodsParticipants included mother-infant dyads (n=100) followed longitudinally in t...

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