Beyond Perinatal Mood: Breadth of Psychiatric Symptoms and Delay Discounting as Correlates of Mothers' Relational Reports from Pregnancy Through Adult Children

Maternal mental illness affects roughly one in five mothers in the United States, yet most evidence linking it to the mother-child relationship comes from the first postpartum year and relies on self-report measures of depression, anxiety, and stress. In 613 women spanning five family contexts - pregnancy and mothers whose youngest child was aged 0-2, 3-12, 13-17, or 18 and older - we examined twelve psychological constructs as correlates of mothers' relational reports. Eleven were associated with relational reports individually; entered together, only three retained independent associations s

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