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Children's Attentional Biases and 5-HTTLPR Genotype: Potential Mechanisms Linking Mother and Child Depression

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Gibb, Brandon E., Benas, Jessica S., Grassia, Marie, McGeary, John·2009·Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

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In this study, we examined the roles of specific cognitive (attentional bias) and genetic (5-HTTLPR) risk factors in the intergenerational transmission of depression. Focusing first on the link between maternal history of major depressive disorder (MDD) and children's attentional biases, we found that children of mothers with a history of MDD during their children's lives, compared to children of mothers with no depression history, exhibited greater attentional avoidance of sad faces. This attention bias was specific to sad, rather than happy or angry, faces. There was also preliminary evidence that this relation is stronger among children carrying the 5-HTTLPR S or L(G) allele than among those homozygous for the L(A) allele. Next, conceptualizing mothers' levels of depressive symptoms during the multi-wave prospective follow-up within a vulnerability-stress framework, we found evidence for a three-way child 5-HTTLPR x attentional bias x mother depressive symptom interaction predicting children's depressive symptoms. Specifically, the relation between mother and child depressive symptom levels over time was strongest among children carrying the 5-HTTLR S or L(G) allele who also exhibited attentional avoidance of sad faces. These findings provide initial support for role of children's 5-HTTLPR genotype and attentional biases for sad faces in the intergenerational transmission of depression.

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  • In children, S-allele carriers have attentional bias towards sad but not happy or angry faces, which interacted with maternal history of depression.

    “increased selective attention towards fear-related pictures (spiders) in women (Osinsky et al., 2008) and in children, attentional bias towards sad but not happy or angry faces which interacted with a maternal history of depression (Gibb et al., 2009).”

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Authors
Gibb, B. E., Benas, J. S., Grassia, M., & McGeary, J.
Affiliations
  • Binghamton University (US)
  • Brown University (US)
Corresponding author
Gibb, Brandon E.
Venue
Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
Published
2009-05-12
Volume
38
Issue
3
Pages
415-426
ISSN
  • 1537-4416 (ISSN-L)
  • 1537-4424
OpenAlex
W2159523536
Cited by
123
References
81
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FWCI
11.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD048664, R03HD048664)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
Keywords
intergenerational transmission of depression, attentional bias, 5-HTTLPR, maternal depression, major depressive disorder, vulnerability-stress model, gene-environment interaction
MeSH terms
Alleles, Attention, Child, Depressive Disorder, Major, Major Depressive Disorder, Facial Expression, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Genotype, Humans, Male, Mother-Child Relations, Mothers, Prospective Studies, Social Perception, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Serotonin Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins

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